The famed Apollo 13 rescue has been the focus of several movies, including a 2024 Netflix documentary. Not all the films have ...

The tragic loss of the Soyuz 11 crew sparked mutual international grief that transformed the Space Race from Cold War competition into cooperation, ultimately leading to the historic 1975 Apollo-Soyuz ...

More than five decades ago, Apollo 14 carried an unusual payload into deep space when hundreds of tree seeds accompanied the mission on its journey around the Moon. While astronauts Alan Shepard and ...

Editor’s note: This story was updated to correct Ben Honey’s title. When Apollo 11 approached the moon on July 20, 1969, its planned landing zone in the Sea of Tranquility was unexpectedly cluttered ...

After months of anticipation, the monumental 10-day Artemis II mission, which sent four astronauts on a record-breaking flyby of the moon, has concluded. It’s a “mission well accomplished,” said NASA ...

The Apollo 13 mission remains one of the most dramatic episodes in the history of human spaceflight. Originally planned as NASA’s third mission to land astronauts on the Moon, Apollo 13 instead turned ...

Surrounded by a vast dark expanse, huddled in sleeping bags with three of your friends in a space the size of a five-person tent. This isn’t a camping trip ‒ it’s life on Orion ‒ the spacecraft ...

The Artemis II astronauts have shared stunning new images of Earth from space. These photos are reminiscent of the iconic "blue marble" picture from the 1972 Apollo 17 mission. The 10-day mission will ...

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. — NASA is celebrating the successful launch of the Artemis II mission on Wednesday from Florida’s Space Coast. The spacecraft adapter jettison fairings that enclose the ...

Four astronauts just blasted off on a historic new flight around the Moon and back. Commander Reid Wiseman, Pilot Victor Glover, and Mission Specialist Christina Koch from NASA, along with Mission ...

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 ...

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 ...