On March 3, 1969, Apollo 9 launched three astronauts on the first crewed test flight of NASA’s lunar module, which astronauts later used to land on the moon. Astronauts James McDivitt, David Scott ...

On February 26, 1966, NASA launched its new Saturn IB rocket on its first test flight. Also known as the Uprated Saturn I, ...

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In their recent announcement, NASA has made official what pretty much anyone following the Artemis lunar program could have ...

Fifty-seven years ago, three men hurtled toward Earth inside a ball of violet flame, moving faster than any humans before or since.

Those were the now-famous words of NASA Capt. James A. "Jim" Lovell Jr., one of America's most decorated astronauts and the mission commander for the ill-fated 1970 Apollo 13. Lovell rephrased a ...

(NASA) – On Feb. 9, 1971, the nine-day Apollo 14 Moon landing mission came to a successful conclusion with the splashdown of astronauts Alan B. Shepard, Stuart A. Roosa, and Edgar D. Mitchell aboard ...

Artemis 3 is no longer bound for the Moon, while the space agency has officially added Artemis 4 to the program roster.

Smithsonian curator Carolyn Russo’s new book The Ascent of Rauschenberg explores the artist's fascination with flight ...

On February 5, 1971, two Apollo 14 astronauts landed on the moon! Apollo 14 commander Alan Shepard and the lunar module pilot Edgar Mitchell left their crewmate Stuart Roosa in the command module and ...

Soon, four astronauts will launch on a mission to the vicinity of the Moon for the first time in over 50 years. The mission, called Artemis II, is the second mission — and first crewed mission — of ...

NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman announced significant changes to the agency's Artemis program, which aims to land on the moon in 2028.