That's the task that faced Peter Adler and Don Eyles of the MIT Instrumentation Lab who were responsible for developing the ...

Almost forgotten now, the mission circled the Earth for 10 days, performing a series of tests with the lunar lander. What it ...

Five new galleries open next month as the popular Washington, D.C. museum marks its 50th anniversary on the National Mall.

Apollo engineers and scientists from Bedford share their reactions to Artemis II and hopes for humanity’s return to the moon.

If you’ve watched a Saturn V launch, you’ve probably seen how a large rocket will often jettison a stage on the way up. There are several reasons for this — there is no reason to haul an empty fuel ...

The Pentagon has released hundreds of UFO-related files, including Apollo mission transcripts, military videos and eyewitness reports of unexplained aerial phenomena. While the disclosures have raised ...

When the first Apollo mission to carry astronauts to orbit launched on October 11, 1968, everyone at NASA sighed in relief. Apollo 7 rose on a pillar of flame from Kennedy Space Center’s Pad 34 on ...

For the first time in more than 50 years, humans are once again venturing to the Moon. Nasa’s Artemis program had sent four astronauts aboard the Orion spacecraft on a mission lasting nearly 10 ...

On April 4, 1968, NASA launched the final uncrewed test flight of its Saturn V rocket. The Apollo 6 mission demonstrated that the Saturn V rocket and the Apollo spacecraft were ready to send ...

Throughout February 2026, people at the Kennedy Space Center got to witness an exciting sight: NASA’s behemoth Space Launch System rocket, SLS, standing on the launch pad, aimed toward the sky. The ...

Apollo 13 was supposed to be NASA's third crewed mission to the surface of the moon, but nearly 56 hours into the flight, command module pilot John "Jack" Swigert radioed a troubling message to ...