Sixty years ago, a NASA astronaut’s antics on a spaceflight into low-Earth orbit sparked a national controversy in the U.S.

Now 88 years old, Charles Duke is a retired general fighter pilot, test pilot and astronaut, was the lunar module pilot on Apollo 16, and the youngest ... burgeoning low-earth-orbit economy.

Apollo 16 astronaut Charlie Duke took this photo of ... the ability to send data up to what Chris Stott calls “Earth’s largest satellite.” It transmitted a copy of the U.S. Declaration ...

Early Apollo Missions: Earth Orbit Apollo missions flew unmanned ... John Young, Ken Mattingly and Charlie Duke of Apollo 16 and Gene Cernan, Ron Evans and Harrison Schmitt of Apollo 17 traveled ...