HUNTSVILLE, Ala. — The U.S. Space and Rocket Center has completed the annual cleaning of the Apollo 16 Command module. The ...

On Dec. 21, 1968, NASA’s Apollo 8 mission launched to the moon. Apollo 8 was the second crewed mission in NASA’s Apollo program. It was also the first mission to bring humans to the moon. It lifted ...

The seventh crewed Apollo mission, Apollo 13, wasn’t as fortunate as the previous missions. Apollo 13 Moon mission was aborted, and all efforts focused on bringing crew members back to Earth alive.

GM equipped a van with a prototype fuel cell hydrogen power system in the 1960s. NASA was simultaneously using fuel cells to generate electricity on Apollo missions. The powertrain took up so much ...

The spacesuit worn by the first Briton in space, the Russian capsule that brought Britain's first professional astronaut back to Earth, and the only flown-to-the-moon Apollo command module to be on ...

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 ...

The Skylab Medical Program involved a series of missions where astronauts conducted extensive biomedical experiments in a weightless environment. The crew launched in an Apollo Command Module and ...

Recent photos taken by India’s Space Research Organization moon orbiter, known as Chandrayaan 2, clearly show the Apollo 11 and Apollo 12 landing sites more than 50 years later. The photos were taken ...

All but one of the Apollo program’s used lunar modules either crashed into the Moon’s surface or burned up in Earth’s atmosphere. Apollo 10’s lunar module, Snoopy, is still out there, drifting ...

The Netflix documentary 'Apollo 13: Survival' gives a rare look at Jim Lovell, Jack Swigert and Fred Haise’s time in space Maddie Garfinkle has been contributing to PEOPLE since 2024. She has over six ...