Fifty-one years ago this month, NASA’s Apollo 13 mission would have been the agency’s third Moon landing and lunar exploration mission. A movie and several books relate the story of this challenging ...

Apollo 16 launched to the moon! Apollo 16 was NASA's fifth lunar landing and the penultimate mission of the entire Apollo program. Three NASA astronauts were on board: John Young, the commander, Ken ...

NASA launched the final un-crewed test flight of its Saturn V rocket. The Apollo 6 mission demonstrated that the Saturn V rocket and the Apollo spacecraft were ready to send astronauts into space. On ...

The Space Launch System (SLS) core stage and rocket boosters have now been stood up and mated in preparation for NASA's Artemis 2 moon mission.

As President Donald Trump’s pick to be NASA administrator ... Space Center in Florida that was designed for the Apollo-era Saturn V rocket. “Our Moon rocket is coming together more and ...

Apollo 8 was the first mission when astronauts could admire their home planet as a small island of life hanging in the dark ...

One of the most enduring and powerful images from America's space program. Earthrise was taken on Christmas eve in 1968 by Astronaut William Anders, Lunar Module Pilot. It is a vintage print in suberb ...

Splashdown occurred in the Pacific Ocean at 1:07 p.m. April 17, after a flight that lasted five days, 22 hours and 54 minutes. [...] ...

We found 20 facts about the Apollo program that are equally interesting and easy to understand. For this list, we used information published by NASA and ... the Saturn V that carried all these ...