From the day the Soviets put an astronaut into space in April 1961, the race was on with America to get a man on the moon.
Despite Neil Armstrong's towering accomplishments, he remained a humble man. Armstrong, who is from Wapakoneta, Ohio, always ...
On May 18, 1969, Apollo 10 launched on a mission to the moon. [‘On This Day in Space’ Video Series on Space.com] ( Apollo 10 was considered a "dress rehearsal" for a lunar landing. It did everything ...
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 ...
James is a published author with multiple pop-history and science books to his name. He specializes in history, space, strange science, and anything out of the ordinary.View full profile James is a ...
The Orion spacecraft that’s taking the four Artemis II astronauts around the moon and back is the largest crewed capsule ever sent beyond low Earth orbit – with habitable space roughly equal to that ...
Astronaut James A. Lovell Jr. was the mission commander for the ill-fated 1970 Apollo 13 mission. Lovell flew on four space missions, including being one of the first humans to orbit the moon on ...
Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the University of Southampton, and specializes in animal behavior, evolution, palaeontology, and the environment. Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the ...
Nearly 50 years after Apollo 11's flight to the moon, a committee was formed to lead restorations on Historic Mission Control at the Johnson Space Center. People looked through countless videos and ...
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 ...
A close-up view of the moon and an astronaut. The moon with a dark background. Soon after the Apollo 10 spacecraft entered the lunar orbit, it eventually traveled to the far side of the moon where any ...