I knew I was alone,” he observed later, “in a way that no earthling has ever been before.” That quote is immortalized on a ...

There was no toilet on the moon missions, and going to the bathroom was a difficult, stinky process that involved a lot of bags.

Jim Irwin, Apollo 15. Donn Eisele, Apollo 7. Ronald Evans, Apollo 17. Wally Schirra, Apollo 7. Neil Armstrong, Apollo 11. These are all Apollo astronauts who died of heart attacks or related ...

HOUSTON, TEX., April 17 – The Apollo 13 astronauts, buoyed by the prayers of millions, and boosted by the technical efforts of thousands, flew to a safe splashdown in the Pacific today after ...

People often ask how Apollo astronauts made it to the Moon and back without running out of fuel. The Apollo spacecraft used a staged approach—removing parts of the transportation along the way ...

Apollo 16 astronaut Charlie Duke and space shuttle astronaut Nicole Stott will have profiles of their faces land on the moon.

Tiny, orange glass beads discovered on the moon during the Apollo era may reveal an untold history of lunar volcanism.

Frank Borman commanded two early NASA missions including Apollo 8, the first to orbit the moon. He was a no-nonsense astronaut known for his keen attention to detail and duty to country.

On the afternoon of December 21, 1968, three astronauts — Frank Borman, Bill Anders, and Jim Lovell — strapped themselves to a Saturn V rocket and blasted into space. The mission was Apollo 8 ...

December 7, 1972 was the launch of the final mission in NASA's Apollo moon program. Fifty years later, NASA finally seems poised to return people to the lunar surface.

The last surviving astronaut, Walt Cunningham, of Apollo 7, NASA’s first successful manned space mission, died early Tuesday morning in Houston.