In 1961, President Kennedy challenged the nation to land a man on the moon and return him safely to Earth before the decade was out. That kind of clarity — specific with regard to destination and ...

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The Georgia Tech research is the first published study showing short- and long-term collision risks in cislunar orbits. Using ...

Using samples collected by the Chinese Chang’e 5 mission, researchers have discovered a new way to release water from lunar ...

In other good news for the SLS and Artemis programs, Congress recently approved additional funding to preserve the Artemis IV ...

The historic Apollo 11 lunar landing on July 20, 1969, was far from a given. Mission Control’s Steve Bales recounts the tense final moments that led to man’s first step.

BREVARD COUNTY • KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLORIDA – On July 16, 1969 at 9:32 a.m. Eastern Time, the Apollo 11 crew of Armstrong, Aldrin, and Collins launched toward the Moon. The astronauts were not the ...

“The flight was extremely normal for the first 36 seconds, and after that it got very interesting," Conrad recalled in the ...

Preparing for retirement is often compared to preparing for a long trip — and there is perhaps no longer trip ever prepared for than going to the moon.

The mission was also Tom Stafford's last spaceflight. The Apollo Command Module Pilot, Vance Brand, would go on to fly on ...

I knew I was alone,” he observed later, “in a way that no earthling has ever been before.” That quote is immortalized on a ...

Although it’s been 52 years since the Apollo 11 mission first took man to the moon and 30 years since Tom Hanks famously told ...