Famed NASA astronaut Jim Lovell, who commanded the harrowing Apollo 13 mission that was forced to abandon a lunar landing attempt in 1970, has died. He was 97. Lovell died on August 7 in Lake Forest, ...
Ken 'TK' Mattingly, an American astronaut who visited the moon in 1972, passed away at the age of 87 on Tuesday, NASA confirms today. Mattingly was most famous for his key role in securing the safe ...
Jim Lovell, the US astronaut who led the ill-fated Apollo 13 mission to the Moon in 1970, died at the age of 97, NASA announced Friday. Lovell, who was supposed to be the fifth person ever to walk on ...
Apollo astronaut Charlie Duke made it to the moon and back using a computer system said to have less power than a modern wristwatch (Picture: Metro.co.uk) Fifty years ago, General Charlie Duke Jr took ...
Walter Cunningham, the last surviving astronaut from the first successful crewed space mission in NASA's Apollo program, has died. He was 90. NASA spokesman Bob Jacobs confirmed Cunningham’s death to ...
The iconic images of the Apollo missions showed the jaw-dropping grandeur of space missions, such as the image of the Earth rising over the lunar surface or Buzz Aldrin snapped in his spacesuit ...
On 1970, NASA cancelled the Apollo 20 moon mission. This came just six months after Apollo 11 astronauts Buzz Aldrin and Neil ...
The wife of a former Apollo astronaut has revealed some of the secrets her husband shared before his passing. Anita Mitchell, widow of the late NASA pilot Edgar Mitchell, who became the sixth man to ...