The world had watched, spellbound, as Apollo 11 made mankind’s first landing on the moon in July 1969. Fewer people paid attention when NASA sent its second mission to the moon four months later: ...
A supercomputer simulation of the Apollo 12 landing on the moon was created to "improve its understanding of plume-surface ...
Apollo 12's pinpoint landing, resilient teamwork, and decades of enduring data prove how one stormy launch reshaped the science of precision exploration. When Apollo 12 lifted off from Cape Kennedy on ...
A new NASA video shows the sites of each of the manned Apollo moon landings on the surface of our moon. The video shows the phases of the moon flash by as time passes, with each of the landing sites ...
On Christmas Eve 1968, Apollo 8 crewmembers Frank Borman, Jim Lovell, and Bill Anders made a live broadcast from orbit around the Moon.
Jim Lovell, an astronaut best known as the commander of the ill-fated Apollo 13, has died. He was 97. NASA announced his death Friday and included this statement from his family: “We are enormously ...
Vintage gelatin silver print on fiber-based paper [NASA image AS12-49-7278]. 8 x 10 in. (20.32 x 25.4 cm.) With NASA credit ...
Today is the 102 nd birthday of Apollo 7 astronaut Wally Schirra, who won an Emmy award for filming a TV show in space while suffering from a bad cold. Apollo 7 astronauts (left to right) Donn Eisele ...