APOLLO 17

NASA scientists have begun to study 50-year-old samples of the moon's surface, collected during the agency's final moon landing mission, Apollo 17.

Fifty years after Apollo 17, NASA’s Johnson Space Center is taking the lead in a major milestone – the opening of lunar sample from the last Apollo mission, Apollo 17.

In a long-awaited moment, NASA scientists have unsealed an extraterrestrial time capsule 50 years after Apollo astronauts collected the rock and dust from the moon.

Nearly 50 years after Apollo 17 astronauts collected rocks from the lunar surface, NASA is finally tapping their samples.

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.

The Whisky Barrel, an online spirits merchant, is celebrating the past and future of NASA missions to the moon with limited scotch whiskey offerings for 2022.

A lunar rock brought to Earth nearly half a century ago is revealing new information about the moon's complex history.

The first Nasa mission to return to the surface of the Moon has been delayed by one year to 2025.

Walking around the moon could be faster than we originally thought, but actually doing it would require some serious planning.

These are the top space stories this week from Space.com.

The For All Moonkind Moon Registry catalogs all of the robotic and human missions that left items on the surface. A new website catalogs the human heritage items that were left behind on the moon, for posterity and for the public to reference. In the meantime, the For All Moonkind Moon Registry is a spectacular resource. Mission entries in the For All Moonkind Moon Registry include the details about the spacecraft and related items that were left on the lunar surface, like Charlie Duke's family photo. "The For All Moonkind Moon Registry is like an all-access pass to the history of human activity on the moon."

Now the international Artemis programme, lead by Nasa, is aiming to put humans back on the Moon by 2024. It was not until July 20 1989, the 20th anniversary of the Apollo 11 landing, that President HW Bush inaugurated the Space Exploration Initiative. Another eight years would pass before, in 2004, President GW Bush, partly as a response to the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster, announced a revitalised Vision for Space Exploration. This is the first time in decades that a new US administration has continued with the deep space human spaceflight policies of the previous one. This would make it vulnerable to the many vagaries of US deep space human spaceflight policy that we have seen for most of the spaceflight era.

An Apollo 17 moon rock can be seen on the bottom shelf of the bookcase at far right. Joe Biden was three weeks from taking office as a freshman U.S. senator when the moon rock that is now newly on display in the White House was collected by astronauts on the lunar surface. Six terms in Congress, two terms as the Vice President of the United States and one presidential inauguration later, Biden and the lunar sample 76015,143 will now share the Oval Office. It is now on display in the Oval Office in the White House. Prior to arriving in the Biden White House, the same moon rock was exhibited at the German Museum of Technology (Deutsches Technikmuseum) in Berlin.

The space agency pulled off its famed Apollo moon landings during a time of incredible division and turmoil in the United States. Apollo offered inspiration to Americans and people around the world back then, NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine noted. And the space agency has a chance to do something similar today with its Artemis program of lunar exploration, he said. Thursday's teleconference delivered some significant Artemis news: NASA has awarded contracts to three industry teams to develop crewed moon landers for the program. Eventually, the agency will procure crewed landing services from the vehicles that make it all the way through the development phase.

United States President Richard Nixon was in the central Pacific recovery area to welcome the Apollo 11 astronauts aboard the USS Hornet, prime recovery ship for the historic Apollo 11 lunar landing mission, on July 24, 1969. The Apollo 11 astronauts are, from left, Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins and Buzz Aldrin. Moonwalker Buzz Aldrin is leveraging his famous Apollo 11 quarantine experience of five decades ago to help society deal with the coronavirus pandemic, which has much of the world under a stay-at-home order. You can buy one of the autographed photos via Aldrin's Apollo Space Shop . The Apollo 11 quarantine may seem silly to us now, but it was a prudent measure at the time, given how little scientists knew about the lunar surface.

HOUSTON - Ever wonder what it would be like to be the wife of an astronaut? Being the wife of an astronautBarbara's husband, Gene Cernan, flew on a Gemini mission before going up again for Apollo 10 and Apollo 17. KPRC2 Gene and BarbaraSue's husband, Alan Bean, took flight on Apollo 12 and later went up on SkyLab. I mean, your husbands are going to the moon, this is the height of the space race," Sachse asked. KPRC2 Barbara and TracyBeing a child of an astronautFor the children, life with an astronaut dad was normal because they didn't know any different.