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

During Apollo 11, as with all the other Apollo missions, astronauts had to wrestle with a stinking baggie in order to relieve themselves. Here's what the process entailed.

Astronauts placed six different American flags on the moon during the Apollo program. What became of those flags in the years since, and why were they controversial?

Apollo 8 ended the space race. "I was there to participate in the Cold War battle with the Soviets," says Frank Borman, now 90 years old and the oldest living former American astronaut, from his ...

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 and moon walker Charlie Duke, left, speaks with former NASA astronauts José Hernández, center, and Christopher Cassidy during a ceremony at Kennedy Space Center Visitor ...

Apollo 7 astronaut Walter Cunningham died at 90. Getty Images. His family, in a statement through NASA, expressed their “immense pride” in the life Cunningham led.

If all goes well, NASA expects to fly astronauts on a trip around the moon in 2024. And soon after, the agency intends to take astronauts to the surface in a lunar lander being built by Elon Musk ...

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

The Apollo 11 astronauts' star is flanked by those of some of Hollywoods most legendary performers. (NASA) The astronauts were again honored on July 20, 1999, when the "stars" were rededicated to ...

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.