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‘When We Go to the Moon’ exhibition opens at New York’s Brave Museum

Considering that it was Navy ships that rescued the Apollo crew and spacecraft that crashed from the Moon, it’s fitting that the largest temporary exhibit ever hosted by the Intrepid, a converted aircraft carrier, is themed around the first Moon landing. The museum, which has been on Manhattan’s west side since 1982, has brought down… Read More »

Space shuttle astronaut and NASA administrator Richard Truly dies at 86

Richard “Dick” Truly, one of the first astronauts to fly on the space shuttle and later served as NASA’s eighth administrator, has died at the age of 86. Truly’s death on Tuesday, February 27, was confirmed by the Space Explorers Association, a professional organization for the world’s astronauts and cosmonauts, which counts Truly as a… Read More »