The WMF's concern isn't just about physical preservation but also about maintaining the historical and cultural value these ...

The Apollo spaceflight program lasted from 1961 to 1972. Apollo 11 was Neil Armstrong's famous first step. Apollo 17 was the ...

Where the astronauts sat in the Apollo Lunar Module may have profoundly impacted the way the experience of walking on the ...

Apollo 14, the third U.S. mission to land on the moon, blasted off using a Saturn V rocket from Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

The 'forgotten astronaut' of the 1969 moon landing shared the bizarre way they were treated upon returning to Earth following ...

NASA recently paid tribute to the Challenger crew and other fallen astronauts during its annual Day of Remembrance.

an Apollo 11 astronaut about to become one of the first humans to set foot beyond Earth. Just days later, lunar module pilot Buzz Aldrin would be following mission commander Neil Armstrong onto ...

President Trump vowed Monday to be the first commander-in-chief to put US astronauts ... in July 1989 — 20 years after the successful Apollo 11 landing on the moon — but NASA later scrapped ...

U.S. astronaut Peggy Whitson, the mission commander, who has a doctorate in biochemistry, is taking the necklace that she ...

Astronaut Buzz Aldrin, lunar module pilot, stands beside an American flag placed on the moon during Apollo 11 extravehicular activity. He is photographed by the mission's commander, Neil A.