The present image was taken by Astronaut Russell Schweickart, the lunar module pilot of the Apollo 9 Mission. In the ...

An 18-karat gold version of the first watch worn on the moon has set a record for the most paid for an astronaut's timepiece.

Apollo 16 launched to the moon! Apollo 16 was NASA's fifth lunar landing and the penultimate mission of the entire Apollo ...

The Apollo 13 mission will forever be remembered as a testament to human ingenuity and the will to survive. Three NASA ...

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. [...] ...

Fifty-one years ago this month, NASA’s Apollo 13 mission would have been the agency’s third Moon landing and lunar exploration mission. A movie and several books relate the story of this challenging ...

Command module pilot Jack Swigert uttered the famous words to Mission Control Center which have often been misquoted.

Apollo 8 was the first mission when astronauts could admire their home planet as a small island of life hanging in the dark ...

(CBS) – On this day in history, April 16, 1972, the Apollo 16 blasted off from Cape Kennedy, Florida. Astronauts John Young and Charles Duke spent a record-breaking 71 hours on the moon. The ...

Apollo 15 astronaut Al Worden discusses his new book ... You spent approximately 75 hours in the command module alone, isolated from even NASA as you went around the far side of the moon.

A cargo plane flew the HALO module to the U.S. from Turin, Italy, where it was constructed by the company Thales Alenia Space ...