NASA's first tragedy is recalled annually at Launch Complex 34. This year is different, as the Artemis II mission sits on the ...
On Dec. 7, 1972, NASA launched the last crew to land on the moon with the Apollo 17 mission. Three NASA astronauts flew to the moon that day: Gene Cernan was the commander, Ronald Evans was the ...
We explore the dramatic story of NASA's Apollo Program, beginning with President Kennedy's ambitious deadline for a lunar landing in response to Soviet success with Sputnik and cosmonaut Yuri Gargarin ...
NASA's towering SLS rocket that will help propel four astronauts on a historic journey around the moon is now visible at the ...
No one in NASA’s Artemis II crew had been born when astronauts last ventured into deep space for the final Apollo program ...
CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. The Apollo program began as part of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA's) ten-year plan from 1959, which planned for lunar ...
On this date, Jan. 22, 1968, Apollo 5 launched in a major step forward for U.S. missions to the lunar surface. The Apollo 5 mission tested the Lunar Module in space for the first time, which was ...
Wickliffe Public Library will be hosting a talk on “The Apollo Space Program” at 7 p.m. June 12. Between 1969 and 1972, 21 American astronauts left Earth’s orbit and voyaged to the moon as part of ...
NASA’s Apollo program, a monumental endeavor spanning from 1961 to 1972, culminated in the historic Apollo 11 mission that landed the first humans on the Moon on July 20, 1969. The program’s total ...
People can discover the tragedies and triumphs of NASA’s Apollo program during a free program at 6:30 p.m. Jan. 15 at Mentor Public Library’s Lake Branch, 5642 Andrews Road in Mentor-on-the-Lake. Eric ...
US astronaut Jim Lovell, the commander of the Apollo 13 Moon mission which nearly ended in disaster in 1970 after a mid-flight explosion, has died at the age of 97, NASA announced Friday. The former ...
A half-century ago, in the middle of a mean year of war, famine, violence in the streets and the widening of the generation gap, men from planet Earth stepped onto another world for the first time, ...