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2012 was the year we conquered Mars again. JPL/NASA photo, taken from the Curiosity Rover.  Despite the absence of the space shuttle, space in 2012

European Space Agency (ESA) Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) Image Credit: ESA / CNES / Arianespace / Photo optique video du CSG The European Space Agency

International playboy Jack Swigert in a 1966 NASA portrait, featuring an autopen signature. Emily Carney is a writer, space enthusiast, and creator of the This

When smoke gets in your eyes: 1965 Life magazine photo.  In September, John Young’s autobiography Forever Young, edited by Neil Armstrong’s biographer James Hansen, was

Could you love a man who lived with danger? Read on.  At the ASF Astronaut Autograph Show this weekend, Francis French had some copies of

Me talking Apollo 12 party times with Dick Gordon (left) and Sweet Al Bean (right.) Thank you, Kristen, for taking this photo! ALAN BEAN (Apollo

“What is this about space hipsters? SUMBITCH.” Gene Cernan, Last Man in Your Face™, with me, November 3, 2012.  So, I went to my first

The Astronaut Scholarship Foundation’s 2012 Astronaut Autograph Show will take place from Thursday, Nov. 1, to Saturday, Nov. 3. I will be going after the Atlantis

Al Worden engages in some awesomely WTF behavior circa 1967. Photos from Falling to Earth’s page on Facebook. Yes, he is drinking a beer.  So

The memorial service for Neil Armstrong, held yesterday, September 13, at Washington, D.C.’s National Cathedral. Thank you to NASA Television on YouTube for posting this.

  Neil Armstrong passed away this afternoon.  Here’s his family’s statement, which ends with these words: “For those who may ask what they can do

From Hugh Downs, Chairman of the NSS Board of Governors: “News of Neil Armstrong’s passing is so shocking that there is no way it can

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