With SpaceX, we're now targeting Fri., April 23 at 5:49 a.m. EDT (9:49 UTC) for launch of the Crew-2 mission to the International Space Station. Live coverage begins at 1:30 a.m. EDT (5:30 UTC), continuing through Crew Dragon's arrival at the station April 24. How to watch: https://go.nasa.gov/32CY3Ap | NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Fifty years ago, three NASA Astronauts embarked on a journey that would take them “Round the Moon and back." The Apollo 8 mission proved the performance of the command and service module. This historic mission launched on December 21, 1968 to demonstrate a lunar trajectory and was the first crewed launch of the Saturn V rocket. On Christmas Eve, Frank Borman, Jim Lovell, and Bill Anders were the first humans to orbit the Moon and the first to see an Earthrise above its surface. | NASA History

With the Apollo 15 moonwalk coming to an end on this day (August 2) in 1971, Commander Dave Scott told Mission Control in Houston, "There's something I think you'll find rather interesting..." He turned to the TV camera and showed the live TV audience, a hammer (in his right hand) and a feather (in his left hand) and pointed out that centuries earlier Galileo had said that without air resistance all objects would fall at the same rate of speed. Scott dropped the hammer and the feather from the s