In 1961, President Kennedy challenged the nation to land a man on the moon and return him safely to Earth before the decade was out. That kind of clarity — specific with regard to destination and ...

Collins Radio workers began assembling the gear used in the mission in the 1960s by hand. Workers told TV9 that a normal job that would take 20 seconds might take up to 5 minutes on the Apollo mission ...

QUEENSLAND, Australia - Under the cover of darkness, more than 350 U.S. Army paratroopers assigned to the 11th Airborne ...

BREVARD COUNTY • KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLORIDA – On July 16, 1969 at 9:32 a.m. Eastern Time, the Apollo 11 crew of Armstrong, Aldrin, and Collins launched toward the Moon. The astronauts were not the ...

Eyewear brand American Optical just released limited-edition aviators that have been worn by everyone from astronauts to former presidents. Buy now ...

The National College of Ireland will host this year’s NASA Space Apps Challenge, with Paola Vercesi as local lead.

“The flight was extremely normal for the first 36 seconds, and after that it got very interesting," Conrad recalled in the ...

Veteran actor William Shatner, famously known as Captain James T. Kirk from Star Trek, recently sparked an unexpected buzz ...

The mission was also Tom Stafford's last spaceflight. The Apollo Command Module Pilot, Vance Brand, would go on to fly on ...

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

On July 13, 1969, the Soviet Union launched its Luna 15 spacecraft on a mission to the moon. Luna 15 was a robotic sample ...

Welcome to Edition 8.02 of the Rocket Report! It's worth taking a moment to recognize an important anniversary in the history ...