On Christmas Day 1968 Michael Collins, who would later be the pilot of Apollo 11’s command module, Columbia, relayed a question his young son had asked about Apollo 8 to Bill Anders, then on board ...
The mission’s goal was to land astronauts on the Moon’s Fra Mauro region and conduct scientific experiments, including ...
But Apollo 13 was never supposed to set a record. The crew were just trying to get home, and their only way back to Earth was ...
The longtime Lake Forest resident and restaurant operator recorded a message before his death last year for the astronauts, ...
Life in space is weirder than you might think, with the crew facing toilet issues, saliva collections, DIY fixes to onboard ...
Orion's interior space is equivalent to that of two minivans, NASA says. That's a lot more breathing room than space capsules ...
What began as a mission to land on the moon became history’s most harrowing space rescue after a technical failure forced the ...
The U.S. Navy doesn’t have a nuclear-powered carrier available, but the USS John P Murtha is well-suited to the recovery ...
Whilst alone on the far side of the Moon, Apollo 10 astronauts heard eerie noises that sounded sort of like music.
Here's what to know about Artemis II, the first time NASA sent humans to the moon and why some people (ahem, Kim Kardashian) ...
Artemis II builds on prior missions including Artemis II and early Apollo missions, including Apollo 8, which set out for a ...
More than half a century after Apollo 13’s crippled spacecraft set an unplanned distance record in a desperate loop around ...