Fifty years after it was jettisoned into space, scientists believe they may have located the last remaining lunar module from the Apollo missions. Apollo 10 launched in May 1969 as what would be, ...

Apollo 9 saw three astronauts blasted into the Earth’s orbit for 10 days as a test flight before the Apollo 11 mission, which saw the first people land on the Moon. Commander James McDivitt, Command ...

Leading up to the historic 1969 Apollo 11 mission, ABC News built a mock Apollo command module to give viewers an inside look at how astronauts would travel to the lunar surface. See more of the ...

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Walter Cunningham, the US astronaut who was the last surviving member of NASA's Apollo 7 mission, has died aged 90. The Iowa native was lunar module pilot on the Apollo 7 mission in 1968, the first ...

On the evening of April 13, 50 years ago, NASA astronauts James Lovell Jr., John Swigert Jr. and Fred Haise Jr. were about to go to sleep for the night in the Apollo 13 command module. They were about ...

It's nearly 50 years since the US became the first country to land men on the Moon. The Apollo 11 mission was a huge moment in US and world history, but what exactly happened and why does it matter?

Walter Cunningham, the last surviving astronaut from the first successful crewed space mission in NASA's Apollo program, has died aged 90. Cunningham joined crewmates Walter Schirra and Donn Eisele ...

Not all of the equipment carried into space was cutting edge and expensive. Some of the more humble odds and ends even prevented disaster. 18: Apollo spacecraft names The second American in space, Gus ...

Humanity has spent little more than three Earth days exploring the Moon. But that time has given us an extraordinary insight into our nearest celestial neighbour. 15.28: Combined spaceflight ...

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