(CBS) – On this day in history, April 16, 1972, the Apollo 16 blasted off from Cape Kennedy, Florida. Astronauts John Young and Charles Duke spent a record-breaking 71 hours on the moon. The ...

A gold watch gifted to Apollo 11 astronaut Neil Armstrong that "is symbolic of man's greatest achievement of the 20th century" is currently at auction.

Back then, the elements that eventually coalesced into the Gateway were geared toward a nebulous initiative to capture a ...

The Apollo 13 mission will forever be remembered as a testament to human ingenuity and the will to survive. Three NASA ...

A key piece of NASA’s lunar future has landed in the U.S. – the HALO module, destined for the Moon’s orbit as part of Gateway ...

Fifty-one years ago this month, NASA’s Apollo 13 mission would have been the agency’s third Moon landing and lunar exploration mission. A movie and several books relate the story of this challenging ...

These NASA missions were not only a steppingstone to the Moon, but influenced many aspects of the way humans still travel ...

How did it differ from the earth? What were the mascons, those mysterious subsurface objects, that perturbed the orbits of lunar satellites? Now, as NASA celebrates Apollo 11 with a series of events ...

That’s just part of the reasoning behind Cleveland baroque orchestra Apollo’s Fire delivering Bach’s magnificent B Minor Mass as their April program. Grammy-winning conductor Jeannette ...

The overall design plans for ground systems like tracking, telemetry, command and ... return to the Lanyue module, which will fly them back to their spaceship waiting in lunar orbit.

The center of the image is in the northern part of Mare Nubium (Sea of Clouds) on the lunar surface. Visible lunar features in the image include the Straight Wall (Rupes Recta), Rima Birt (Birt ...

An astronaut who flew on one of NASA’s most famous missions to the moon chatted with elementary students at Immaculate Conception Catholic Schools Monday and answered their questions via Zoom.