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 ...

(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 ...

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

When NASA’s Artemis 1 splashed down in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of California Sunday, it brought to an end a supremely successful mission that tested an entirely new rocket — the space launch ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Netflix documentary 'Apollo 13: Survival' gives a rare look at Jim Lovell, Jack Swigert and Fred Haise’s time in space ...

American astronaut Michael Collins, who as pilot of the Apollo 11 command module stayed behind on July 20, 1969, while Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin travelled to the lunar surface to become the first ...

“We selected these as being representative of the flight, the nation’s hope,” said Armstrong. During a press conference on July 5 at the MSC auditorium, the Apollo 11 astronauts disclosed the names ...