On Jan. 31, 1971, Apollo 14, the third U.S. mission to land on the moon, blasted off using a Saturn V rocket from Kennedy ...
Apollo 14, the first lunar space mission after the crisis of Apollo 13, successfully landed on the Moon on Feb. 5, 1971.
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — A collection of 36 fragmented Bibles that went into space during the Apollo 14 mission, which were found in a Knoxville church, is now up for auction. The Bibles are up for auction ...
Two of the greatest space missions America ever attempted took place in December, and this year passed with almost no fanfare ...
The Apollo Prayer League worked to send Bibles to the moon. After succeeding in 1971, some of those Bibles on mircroform went to a church in Knoxville. It was a unique gift for a unique church. The ...
Apollo 14 — the safely numbered one after that, um, other one — splashed down 40 years ago today. Since there were no dancing-on-the-edge death-defying dramatic escapes on this one, the mission is ...
What NASA accomplished in the early 1970s is a little-known but truly impressive feat. Instead of putting rockets or robots in space, they put seeds there. Seeds of different trees accompanied ...
When Apollo 14 returned to Earth in 1971, it brought with it an unexpected legacy: hundreds of tree seeds that had orbited the Moon. These seeds, later called “Moon Trees,” were part of a small ...