John Young and Charlie Duke were the next men to walk on the moon. When the crew reached lunar orbit, the mission almost had ...

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

With the world anxiously watching, Apollo 13, a U.S. lunar spacecraft that suffered a severe malfunction on its journey to ...

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 ...

For a generation born after the Apollo 17 mission in 1972, it represents not just a technical milestone, but a defining ...

Follow the Artemis mission to bring humanity back to the Moon for the first time since Apollo. A half-century after Apollo, the Artemis missions aim to bring astronauts back to the Moon and establish ...

Humanity first reached the moon in 1969. We went back a few times, then lost interest within three short years, and we ...

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The astronauts of Artemis-2 are getting used to normal gravity after spending nine days in weightlessness. The yet-to-be name ...

The splashdown will conclude the crew's 685,000 mile flight that began 10 days ago and marked the first manned flight to the ...

In a fitting parallel, Artemis II broke the deep-space distance record set by Apollo 13 in 1970. The Orion capsule reached a ...

The last time human beings left the neighborhood of Earth, Richard Nixon was in the White House, the Vietnam War was still grinding on, and a gallon of gasoline cost ...