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. [...] ...

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

A team behind the rescue of two lunar satellites left stranded by a launch anomaly have revealed the challenges they faced in ...

One of the most enduring and powerful images from America's space program. Earthrise was taken on Christmas eve in 1968 by Astronaut William Anders, Lunar Module Pilot. It is a vintage print in suberb ...

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

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

A secretive Northrop Grumman rocket factory has exploded in a remote patch of the Utah desert.  The explosion occurred at the Northrop Grumman Rocket Garden facility in Promontory at 7:38am.  Images ...

Lunar experts at APL have developed a new resource to guide technology developers who are creating systems designed to ...

(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 ...

Siberia has, since time immemorial, been a precious land sought after by major powers. The many Chinese dynasties – particularly the Han, Tang, Yuan and Qing dynasties – as well as the Mongol Empire ...

Back then, the elements that eventually coalesced into the Gateway were geared toward a nebulous initiative to capture a ...

NASA's Apollo 13 mission, where disaster struck and an oxygen tank exploded, we take a look at some of the most harrowing space-related accidents ...