HUNTSVILLE, Ala. — The U.S. Space and Rocket Center has completed the annual cleaning of the Apollo 16 Command module. The ...

While Alan Shepard played one of the worst rounds of Moon golf on record, an experiment was circling the Moon 34 times on ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Apollo 13, the third scheduled manned ...

Hundreds of NASA employees and contractors are working the three-day holiday weekend in an effort to attempt something that ...

When fire breaks out in the low-gravity, high-stakes conditions inside spacecraft or space stations, it behaves very ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Apollo 11 command module Columbia on temporary cradle. Photo by Eric Long, National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution The last time ...

After a fairly eventful mission to the Moon's surface, Charles Duke left several items on the Moon, and a message to whoever ...

On Dec. 21, 1968, NASA’s Apollo 8 mission launched to the moon. Apollo 8 was the second crewed mission in NASA’s Apollo program. It was also the first mission to bring humans to the moon. It lifted ...

On this day in 1969, NASA formally announced the prime crew selected to carry out the Apollo 11 mission, a decision that would soon mark one of the most defining moments in human history.

Last year delivered doses of drama and excitement in the space business, with a record number of launches, breathtaking ...

Though Artemis II will not be landing on the lunar surface – Nasa aims to put boots on the ground by 2030, though China is ...

New full-length documentary uses archival footage and mission audio to deliver one of the most detailed and accessible accounts of NASA’s “successful failure” LOS ANGELES, CA, UNITED STATES, January 5 ...