Between the lines, NASA desperately needed to maintain its massive workforce and coalition of contractors. The space program amassed an army of 400,000 employees for Apollo.

The Apollo 17 preliminary science report, published in 1973, includes a map of the lunar surface that reveals a small crater named Snoopy.

On 20 July 1969, the world watched in anticipation as Apollo 11’s ‘Eagle’ lunar module touched down on the moon’s surface. From the early Apollo 1 tragedy to the social pressures that threatened the ...

Astronauts from NASA said goodbye to the moon for the last time on Dec. 14, 1972. The somberness of the anniversary is offset by the scenes of Artemis I’s recently concluded mission.

The Airbus-built European Service Module (ESM) will power Orion to and from its lunar orbit as part of NASA’s Artemis missions. Airbus has developed the ESM as prime contractor for the European Space ...

At the time of the accident, my grandfather, James Gleaves, was the lead technician for North American Aviation, the NASA contractor that designed and manufactured the command and service module ...

The Apollo 13 crew consisted of Commander James ‘Jim’ Lovell Jr., Command Module Pilot John ‘Jack’ Swigert and Lunar Module Pilot Fred Haise Jr. Fifty-one years later, the surviving ...

The crew of Apollo 13 were allowed to start powering up the Odyssey two hours early in order to get some heat into the spacecraft. However, as Kranz noted "the most chilling discussion came a few ...

Here’s an unprecedented look at Apollo 13’s damaged service module "It almost felt like I was behind the camera, inside the lunar module." ...

The damaged service module of the Apollo 13 mission, floating away after the astronauts jettisoned it before re-entry back to Earth. NASA ...

That's how, 330,000 kilometres from Earth, Lovell and fellow astronauts Fred Haise and John Swigert found themselves in a service module that was quickly leaking oxygen, electricity, and water.