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Robert “Ed” Smylie stands next to the command center used during the Apollo missions. Smylie, an MSU alumnus who played a ...

The agency said that key components of the ambitious project, including the Long March 10 heavy-lift carrier rocket, the ...

NASA is celebrating the 53rd anniversary of the Apollo 16 mission which touched down on the Moon on April 21. Besides being ...

A new record has been set for the most paid at auction for an astronaut's timepiece. The 18-karat gold Omega Speedmaster that ...

The present image was taken by Astronaut Russell Schweickart, the lunar module pilot of the Apollo 9 Mission. In the ...

Splashdown occurred in the Pacific Ocean at 1:07 p.m. April 17, after a flight that lasted five days, 22 hours and 54 minutes. [...] ...

Command module pilot Jack Swigert uttered the famous words to Mission Control Center which have often been misquoted.

Apollo 8 was the first mission when astronauts could admire their home planet as a small island of life hanging in the dark ...

Apollo 16 launched to the moon! Apollo 16 was NASA's fifth lunar landing and the penultimate mission of the entire Apollo ...

(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 ...

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