Following the historic year of 1969 that saw two successful Moon landings, 1970 opened on a more sober note. Ever-tightening ...

The short answer to the question is no: NASA does not issue suicide capsules. However, the first cosmonaut to conduct a ...

As an astronaut, Lovell had several missions that ... But Lovell is best remembered as commander of the Apollo 13 mission, where an oxygen tank exploded two days after the launch, depleting ...

Zero-gravity cuisine has come a long way since humans first stepped on the moon. But Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin probably ...

Astronauts placed six different American flags on the moon during the Apollo program. What became of those flags in the years ...

CAPE KENNEDY -- Apollo 8, thundering on a pillar of flame and smoke into history's greatest adventure, carried three astronauts into an aiming orbit today for man's first voyage around the moon.

In Platoff's report, she points out that NASA engineers were challenged by the prospect of Apollo astronauts raising a flag on the moon. "They designed a flagpole with a horizontal bar allowing ...