On Dec. 21, 1968, NASA’s Apollo 8 mission launched to the moon. Apollo 8 was the second crewed mission in NASA’s Apollo ...

Communities near NASA lit luminarias so the Apollo 8 astronauts could find their way home. The tradition has continued ever ...

Apollo 17, the final NASA mission to send humans to the Moon for Project Apollo, splashed down on this day in 1972. [...] ...

Destination Moon' follows a real-life astronaut mission that ended tragically — and the lessons learned for future Apollo missions.

A supercomputer simulation of the Apollo 12 landing on the moon was created to "improve its understanding of plume-surface ...

Buzz Aldrin, Neil Armstrong, and Michael Collins were quarantined for three weeks because NASA was afraid of dangerous germs from the moon.

In 1972, Apollo 17 landed on the moon. It was the final Apollo lunar landing. Ron Evans was the command module pilot and ...

On Dec. 11, 1972, Apollo 17 became the last mission to launch humans on the moon. [‘On This Day in Space’ Video Series on ...

See Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin’s historic photographs and words from the moonwalk. By Jonathan CorumMika GröndahlEvan GrothjanJon HuangLingdong HuangYuliya Parshina-KottasKarthik Patanjali and ...

CAPE CANAVERAL — The cosmos is providing a full moon for the 55th anniversary of the first lunar landing this weekend, and plenty of other events honor Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin’s giant leap.

Astronaut James Lovell, who was commander of the 1970 Apollo 13 mission that managed to get back to earth safely after an oxygen tank explosion, has died. FILE - In this photo provided by NASA, ...

Capt. James A. Lovell, Jr., attends the 45th Anniversary of Apollo 8 ‘Christmas Eve Broadcast to Earth’ event at the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago on Dec. 23, 2013. AP File Photo Apollo 13 ...