NASA is now targeting March 2026 for Artemis II — the first crewed lunar mission since 1972. It will set the stage for Artemis III’s planned moon landing in 2027.
Apollo 8’s lunar mission ended aboard USS Yorktown. A new Patriots Point exhibit reveals how the carrier recovered the astronauts after their splashdown.
On Jan. 31, 1971, Apollo 14, the third U.S. mission to land on the moon, blasted off using a Saturn V rocket from Kennedy ...
On 1971, Apollo 14, the third U.S. mission to land on the moon, blasted off using a Saturn V rocket from Kennedy Space Center ...
NASA Astronauts will soon be heading back to the Moon for the first time in 50 years - but why are they going, who’s going, ...
Humanity has changed an awful lot in the past 58 Years. The moon? Not so much. It was in 1968 that astronauts first drew near ...
If flying to the Moon were like swimming the English Channel, no one in the 53 years since Apollo 17 splashed down in the ...
Richard “Dick” F. Gordon Jr. was born in Seattle on Oct. 5, 1929. He graduated from UW with a bachelor’s degree in chemistry in 1951. By graduation, Gordon had not yet set his sights on being one out ...
[Mike Stewart] powers up a thrust meter from an Apollo lunar module. This bit of kit passed inspection on September 25, 1969. Fortunately [Mike] was able to dig up some old documentation which ...
When Neil Armstrong Aldrin reflected on Apollo 11, they were looking backward at a moment that reshaped history.