NASA is celebrating the 53rd anniversary of the Apollo 16 mission which touched down on the Moon on April 21. Besides being ...

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

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.

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

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. [...] ...

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

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.

The "Blue Marble" was the first photo of the whole Earth and the only ever taken by a human. Fifty years on, new images of ...

A gold Omega Speedmaster once owned by Apollo 11 astronaut Neil Armstrong was sold for $2,187,500, setting a new record for ...