Apollo astronaut Thomas Kenneth Mattingly II, known for helping the crew of Apollo 13 safely return to Earth after an explosion doomed their lunar mission, has died at the age of 87, NASA announced.

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 ...

An astronaut who visited the moon in 1972 as part of the Apollo 16 crew and helped design the Apollo spacesuits has died at the age of 87. But he's probably best known for Apollo 13 - the mission he ...

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 ...

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That's one small step for a man. One very expensive leap for the United States. Okay, sure, some would argue focusing on the total cost of the Apollo program defeats the purpose. Stepping onto 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 ...

The Apollo program saw a total of 11 spaceflights and the first humans walk on the moon. NASA started the program, which is also known as Project Apollo, in 1961 with the sole mission of getting ...

On Christmas Eve 1968, Apollo 8 crewmembers Frank Borman, Jim Lovell, and Bill Anders made a live broadcast from orbit around the Moon.

During the Apollo program, astronauts trained in some unexpected places including nuclear bomb craters. These sites offered ...

In the first of BBC Future’s stories recounting the Apollo program in 50 numbers, we look at the people who helped make the Moon missions reality. 400,000: Total Apollo workforce Neil Armstrong was ...