Mariner 4 Credit: NASA According to NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the Institute of Technology, one of the greatest early successes of the American space program was the Mariner 4 mission that journeyed to Mars. The spacecraft made its closest approach to...
Hawaii college students pose for a photograph at the 25th NASA Space Grant Symposium in November. Several University of Hawaii at Hilo students were honored at the 25th NASA Space Grant Symposium held at the East-West Center at UH-Manoa. Niki Thomas, a 2015 intern at...
‘Iolani High School’s Moon RIDERS participants pose for a picture. Recently, ‘Iolani High School’s Moon RIDERS participants visited with lunar scientists G. Jeffrey Taylor and Paul Lucey at the Hawaii Institute for Geophysics and Planetology. During their...
A professor of astrophysical and planetary sciences at the University of Colorado will be giving a lecture about the New Horizons Mission Monday. The lecture will be held from 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. in the McMurtry Auditorium in Duncan Hall at the university. During the...
Lunokhod-1 Photo Credit: Lavochkin Association On Nov. 17, 1970 the first in the world automatic self-propelled vehicle Lunokhod-1 was delivered to the Moon’s surface using interplanetary station Luna-17. According to an online story, the vehicle downlinked to the...
The Apollo 12 Lunar Module, in a lunar landing configuration, is photographed in lunar orbit from the Command and Service Modules (CSM) on Nov. 19, 1969.. Image Credit: NASA On Nov. 19, 1969, Apollo 12 landed on the moon. According to a recent story on...
