Today is Moon Day, Space Exploration Day and the anniversary of the first Apollo 11 moonwalk. Here’s a look at the Apollo ...

Find the locations of the five landing zones considered as the setting for humanity's first steps on another world.

Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin took man's first historic steps on the moon. One Houston man made history helping it happen.

The first joint space mission between the United States and Russia (then the Soviet Union) docked in Earth orbit half a ...

Workers from within NASA will protest the space agency leadership's "preemptive over-compliance" of the White House's ...

NASA astronauts Buzz Aldrin, Neil Armstrong and Michael Collins blasted off on their famous mission to land and walk on the ...

Space artist Paul Calle thought he had represented the overall mission for the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project (ASTP). NASA ...

The so-called "right stuff" manifests rather differently in "Apollo 13". Sure, this generation of astronauts knows the final ...

He was selected by NASA as a scientist-astronaut in 1965. Apollo 17 was Schmitt's only flight to space, but he continued to work at NASA after the Apollo program as chief of the scientist ...

The Apollo program transformed test pilots into geologists. Here's how NASA's astronauts came to be pioneers in the field of planetary science.

Apollo 11 Moon landing: A brief timeline from 1961 to 1969. Apollo 11 landed on the Moon on July 20, 1969. Here is a brief timeline of events that lead to the historic moment, from President ...

Apollo 8, the first mission to carry humans to the moon, entered lunar orbit on December 24, 1968. ... NASA was reluctant to miss its shot at claiming a different spaceflight first.