Decades ago, there was an Apollo Generation of children who came of age during the era of the lunar landing. NASA hopes to ...

The Apollo missions to the moon established many of the guidelines that we still use for space travel today, with some modern ...

On April 16, 1972, Apollo 16 launched to the moon! Apollo 16 was NASA's fifth lunar landing and the penultimate mission of the entire Apollo program. [‘On This Day in Space’ Video Series on Space.com] ...

What began as a mission to land on the moon became history’s most harrowing space rescue after a technical failure forced the crew of Apollo 13 into a 200,000-mile race for survival.

Stare into the open hatch of Odyssey, the scarred Apollo 13 command module in which three American astronauts made their ...

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla – Before the rockets. Before the moon landings. There were the names. NASA’s most famous lunar program, Apollo, was named after the Greek god of the sun — a symbol of light, ...

Sam Dove is one of the people in charge of getting NASA’s Artemis rocket to the launch pad running the workhorse ...

From Mercury & Apollo Missions to the Space Shuttle Program, Mars Rover Landings, & Artemis II. NASA officials held a news conference at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida to highlight progress on ...

Salvador Aleguas Jr., 91, of Melbourne, Florida, passed away peacefully in his sleep on April 2, 2026. Born on November 6, 1934, in Colón, Republic of Panama, to Salvador Aleguas and Hilda Aleguas, ...

Apollo astronaut Jack Schmitt reflects on lunar exploration, the significance of establishing a lunar base, and the potential ...

But Kennedy sold the space program instrumentally as well, in a more familiar politician’s register. Sometimes he used the strategic language of the Cold War, promising to achieve “a position of ...