Stare into the open hatch of Odyssey, the scarred Apollo 13 command module in which three American astronauts made their ...

On April 16, 1972, Apollo 16 launched to the moon! Apollo 16 was NASA's fifth lunar landing and the penultimate mission of ...

Splashdown occurred in the Pacific Ocean at 1:07 p.m. April 17, after a flight that lasted five days, 22 hours and 54 minutes ...

What began as a mission to land on the moon became history’s most harrowing space rescue after a technical failure forced the crew of Apollo 13 into a 200,000-mile race for survival.

For the first time in 54 years, American astronauts are heading back to the moon. The Artemis II is set to launch on April 1, after years of delays and concerns regarding landing sites and the ...

RR Auction’s April 23 sale features Gene Cernan’s thrice‑flown 1953 $2 note—the only paper money carried in Earth and lunar ...

The Artemis II rocket launched on Wednesday, carrying astronauts to the moon for the first time in over half a century. The four-person crew is headed on a 10-day, 230,000-mile journey around the moon ...

The longtime Lake Forest resident and restaurant operator recorded a message before his death last year for the astronauts, cheering their achievement. During their lunar flyby, the Artemis II crew ...

Surrounded by a vast dark expanse, huddled in sleeping bags with three of your friends in a space the size of a five-person tent. This isn’t a camping trip ‒ it’s life on Orion ‒ the spacecraft ...

The U.S. Navy doesn’t have a nuclear-powered carrier available, but the USS John P Murtha is well-suited to the recovery mission of the Orion space capsule ...

The Artemis II astronauts will travel around the Moon in the Orion spacecraft. Esa / D. Ducros At 13:24:59 Central Standard Time on December 19 1972, the Apollo 17 command module splashed down in the ...