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News Articles: Apollo missions

Apollo 15 lunar mission astronaut David R. Scott stands before the lunar lander module and the lunar rover on the surface of the moon in 1971.

Astronaut's rare photos from Space Age heyday on display in Columbus

A partnership between Columbus State University's Bo Bartlett Center and its Coca-Cola Space Science Center will provide a rare glimpse into American space exploration.

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The NASA Artemis 1 rocket with the Orion spacecraft aboard moves slowly on an 11 hour journey to a launch pad at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., on Thursday, March 17, 2022.

NASA's Artemis 1 moon rocket reaches the launch pad

NASA's Artemis 1 rocket, the Space Launch System, reached the Kennedy Space Center's Launch Complex 39B on Friday. The successor to the Apollo program could one day send humans back to the moon.

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  • Brendan Byrne
Astronaut and geologist Harrison Schmitt is seen in the Lunar Roving Vehicle during NASA's Apollo 17 mission on Dec. 13, 1972. A lunar soil sample collected on the mission has remained sealed until now.

NASA is just now opening a vacuum-sealed sample it took from the moon 50 years ago

Astronauts hammered collection tubes into the lunar surface on the last Apollo mission to the moon. Now a sample is being carefully pierced open — to be analyzed by today's latest tech.

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  • Laurel Wamsley