On April 16, 1972, Apollo 16 launched to the moon! Apollo 16 was NASA's fifth lunar landing and the penultimate mission of ...

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 ...

But Apollo 13 was never supposed to set a record. The crew were just trying to get home, and their only way back to Earth was ...

On Christmas Day 1968 Michael Collins, who would later be the pilot of Apollo 11’s command module, Columbia, relayed a ...

The historic computer software code that took Apollo 11 to the moon has been open-sourced and is available to anyone to read, ...

In some respects, it doesn't seem that long ago. It's been 65 years — within the lifetime of many on Earth today — since men first sat on top of a rocket and launched into space. When is Artemis 2 ...

In 1987, I met Space Shuttle Mission Specialist Dr Mary L Cleave who had flown on Flight STS 61 on the Atlantis shuttle from ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In some respects, it doesn't seem that long ago. It's been 65 years — within the lifetime of many on Earth today — since men first ...

Astronaut Jim Lovell, who flew on two Apollo-era missions in 1968 and 1970, recorded a message for the Artemis II crew before ...

Surrounded by a vast dark expanse, huddled in sleeping bags with three of your friends in a space the size of a five-person tent. This isn’t a camping trip ‒ it’s life on Orion ‒ the spacecraft ...