July 20, 2019 On Apollo 11 anniversary, Pence announces that Orion capsule for manned Moon missions is ready for debut flight Speaking at Kennedy Space Center on the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon landing, Vice President Mike Pence announced that the Orion capsule that will take American astronauts back to the Moon is ready.
July 20, 2019 Mike Pence: We’re heading back to the moon and then on to Mars President Trump has made it our national policy to return to the moon in the next five years – and this time, we will stay.
July 20, 2019 Apollo 11 flight director remembers historic mission to the Moon For many Americans, the first Moon landing serves as a historic -but distant- memory. Current generations learn about the event from parents or a textbook, but for flight director Gene Kranz the mission is personal.
July 20, 2019 Dan Gainor: Media convict Trump of racism and moon program of sexism News media reports and commentaries were filled with claims this week that President Trump’s comments about four far-left Democratic congresswomen were racist – and even that the president is himself a racist.
July 20, 2019 Astronaut Stan Love says US will 'absolutely' meet Trump's goal of reaching moon by 2024 Stan Love, an astronaut with NASA, expressed confidence that the United States would be able to reach the moon again under the timetable proposed by President Trump.
July 20, 2019 On Apollo 11 anniversary, US astronaut blasts off to the space station in a Russian Soyuz spacecraft NASA astronaut Andrew Morgan blasted off to the International Space Station from Kazakhstan Saturday, on the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon landing.
July 20, 2019 NASA chief: Future Artemis Moon missions will build on Apollo 11’s incredible legacy NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine says that the agency’s Artemis program will build on Apollo 11’s incredible legacy by landing a new generation of U.S. astronauts, including the first woman, on the Moon.
July 20, 2019 Fox News correspondent Kristin Fisher discusses family's ties to NASA on Apollo 11 anniversary As America celebrates the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11, Fox News correspondent Kristin Fisher discussed her own parents' role in NASA's space program.
July 20, 2019 Veteran NASA Astronaut Tom Jones: Apollo 11 anniversary -- America must lead a return to the moon When Apollo 11 reached the moon fifty years ago, it gave the nation a highly visible and long-lasting technological edge which contributed directly to winning the Cold War. Returning to the moon as part of the larger human exploration of deep space will deliver similar results and stand as evidence of America’s global technological leadership.
July 20, 2019 Robert Charles: Moon landing showed impossible was possible as it united world The notion of getting three men to the moon, entering lunar orbit, descending with two in a spider-like module, and returning to Earth was more than novel. It seemed like science fiction.
