Months of gruelling training exercises paid off for NASA on July 20, 1969, when Apollo 11 landed on the Moon. The historic mission saw astronauts Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins safely ...

On July 20 1969, US space agency NASA’s Apollo 11 Eagle module landed on the Moon’s Tranquility Base. Hours later, at 9.56pm CT (2.56am BST), Neil Armstrong made history by becoming the first person ...

Apollo 11 launched this week in 1969, carrying the first men to land on the Moon. In the months leading up to the historic take-off, Nasa put the crew through gruelling, relentless simulations in ...

NASA’s Apollo program made history from the launch of its very first manned spacecraft on Oct. 11, 1968. And now, almost 50 years later, “Apollo VII-XVII,” a new book from teNeues, relives the drama ...

Earlier this summer, six prospective astronauts hiked through endless black and grey sediment, on ground devoid of vegetation. A landscape that could easily be mistaken for the Moon is actually ...

As NASA prepared astronauts for its second mission into space, National Geographic had exclusive behind-the-scenes access for the intense and out-of-this-world training these pioneers underwent.

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. The Apollo program began as part of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) long-term plan for lunar exploration. Dr. Donald R.

Terrifying audio has resurfaced from inside the space capsule during the Apollo 1 disaster. Apollo 1 became one most infamous space race disasters in which three astronauts lost their lives in a ...

"Soyuz and Apollo are shaking hands now!" Fifty years ago today (July 17), at 12:09 p.m. EDT (1609 GMT), history was made as two crewed spacecraft launched by two countries docked together in orbit ...

These two bits of paper with notes hastily scrawled across them are actually part of the emergency checklist that helped save the crew of the doomed Apollo 13 space mission. Astronauts marked the ...

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 ...