/-/https/www.sciencebuddies.org/cdn/Files/21464/5/sb-logo.png){kind=logo}
/-/https/www.sciencebuddies.org/cdn/Files/21464/5/sb-logo.png){kind=logo}
News Results (top 2,000 results)
|
Select a resource
Filter by
Sort by
|
News Article
June 20, 2024
With the dress rehearsal completed during Apollo 10 in May 1969, only a few weeks remained until Apollo 11, the actual Moon landing mission to meet President Kennedy’s goal set in 1961. Apollo 11 astronauts Neil A. Armstrong, Michael Collins, and Edwin E. “Buzz” Aldrin and their backups James A. Lovell, William A. Anders, and […]
Read more
News Article
February 13, 2024
In early 1969, the goal set by President John F. Kennedy to land a man on the Moon seemed within reach. A new president, Richard M. Nixon, now sat in the White House and needed to chart America’s course in space in the post-Apollo era. President Nixon directed his science advisor to evaluate proposals for […]
Read more
News Article
December 20, 2023
December 1968 ended a year more turbulent than most. For the American space program, however, it brought the Moon landing one giant step closer. The successful first lunar orbital flight by Apollo 8 astronauts Frank Borman, James A. Lovell, and William A. Anders proved the space worthiness of the Apollo Command and Service Modules (CSM) […]
Read more
News Article
January 19, 2024
The new year of 1969 dawned with optimism that NASA would meet President John F. Kennedy’s goal of landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth. The previous year saw four Apollo missions, two uncrewed and two carrying three astronauts each, test different components of the lunar landing architecture, culminating […]
Read more
News Article
September 16, 2024
The Apollo 11 mission in July 1969 completed the goal set by President John F. Kennedy in 1961 to land a man on the Moon and return him safely to the Earth before the end of the decade. At the time, NASA planned nine more Apollo Moon landing missions of increasing complexity and an Earth […]
Read more
News Article
January 24, 2012
Bacteria infections -- most of which are preventable via vaccines readily available in the developed world -- and not malaria are the leading cause of death for children in sub-Saharan Africa.
A new Michigan State University project based in Nigeria and funded by a $5.8 million grant aims to help prevent these diseases by collecting local data on the ailments, spurring vaccine use and development.
Read more
News Article
May 10, 2012
Brittle stars and people have something in common: They move in fundamentally similar ways. Though not bilaterally symmetrical like humans and many other animals, brittle stars have come up with a mechanism to choose any of its five limbs to direct its movement on the seabed. It's as if each arm can be the creature's front, capable of locomotion and charting direction. Results appear in the Journal of Experimental Biology.
Read more
|
/-/https/www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/moon-landing-l-1-month-9-apollo-11-lunar-eva-trng-msc-jun-5-1969-s69-36206.jpg)
/-/https/www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/nixon-forms-stg-2-jfk-rice-speech-sep-12-1962-s62-05616.jpg)
/-/https/www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/moon-landing-l-7-months-17-apollo-9-crew-in-front-of-apollo-8-rocket-dec-18-1968-s68-56621.jpg)
/-/https/www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/moon-landing-l-6-months-1-apollo-1-crew-at-pad-34-jan-17-1967-s67-19770.jpg)
/-/https/www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/stg-report-2-jfk-rice-speech-sep-12-1962-s62-05616.jpg)
/-/https/img.youtube.com/vi/2wrcv28ODNg/0.jpg)
/-/https/img.youtube.com/vi/Af0LB3abBsk/0.jpg)
/-/https/img.youtube.com/vi/dC9uuHoIgXk/0.jpg)