1971: Apollo astronauts training on the Big Island of Hawaii with the lunar roving vehicle, popularly known as the “Moon Buggy”. Photo from NASA. DID YOU KNOW? Hawaii played a significant part in preparing the Apollo astronauts for their space...
KIDS SURE SAY THE FUNNIEST THINGS, DON’T THEY? BUT THEIR INNOCENT MINDS COME WITHOUT BOUNDARIES, WHICH MAKE THEM BRILLIANT AT SEEING THINGS IN A WAY ADULTS DON’T. JUST CHECK OUT THESE SNIPPETS FROM LETTERS THAT 4TH GRADERS AT KAUMANA ELEMENTARY WROTE TO PISCES...
Image Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center NASA is inviting the public to select their favorite image of the moon from a collection taken by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) to celebrate its fifth anniversary in space. The winning selection will don...
Artist rendering of 3-D printed structures on the moon. Image courtesy of Behnaz Farahi and Connor Wingfield. Hawaii lawmakers passed a Resolution April 15th supporting PISCES and NASA-partnered projects that involve using lava rock, or basalt, as construction...
Buzz Aldrin appears outside the “Eagle” Lunar Module at Tranquility Base accompanied by experimental instruments and an American flag. Fellow astronaut Neil Armstrong captured the “out-of-this-world” image using a 70 mm lunar surface camera....
