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

The Apollo-Soyuz Test Project brought Soviet cosmonauts and NASA astronauts together in the first international human ...

NASA is focused on the moon as a crucial stepping stone for future deep space exploration. Earth's moon is a 4.5-billion-year ...

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?

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 ...

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

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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.