The Apollo 11 command module, which travelled around one-and-a-half million kilometres to take Americans to the moon and back in 1969, is going on a road trip You can save this article by registering ...

(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 ...

Once America's most experienced astronaut, Apollo 13's Jim Lovell, who died at 97, was the first to visit the moon twice.

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

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"Houston, we have a problem." Apollo 13 commander Jim Lovell Jr. didn't say that, exactly. But it's one of the all-time great movie lines, nonetheless, and as uttered by Tom Hanks—who played Lovell in ...

On January 27, 1967, three Apollo astronauts were killed during a routine preflight rehearsal at NASA's Kennedy Space Center. The Apollo 1 fire was the first major deadly disaster in the history of ...

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