On the morning of May 5, 1961, astronaut Alan Shepard crawled into the cramped Mercury capsule, "Freedom 7," at Launch ...

NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman told lawmakers on Monday that SpaceX and Blue Origin, the agency’s two lunar lander ...

Stare into the open hatch of Odyssey, the scarred Apollo 13 command module in which three American astronauts made their improbable return to Earth from a seemingly jinxed lunar mission, ...

But Apollo 13 was never supposed to set a record. The crew were just trying to get home, and their only way back to Earth was the long way around the Moon.

TOMORROW. COMING UP, I’LL SHOW YOU THAT EASTER RAIN TIMING. CHRIS. THANK YOU. HISTORY TONIGHT IN THE SKY IS FOR ASTRONAUTS EMBARKED ON A HIGH STAKES FLIGHT AROUND THE MOON. AFTER A SHORT DELAY, THE ...

On March 3, 1969, Apollo 9 launched three astronauts on the first crewed test flight of NASA’s lunar module, which astronauts later used to land on the moon. Astronauts James McDivitt, David Scott and ...

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Editor’s note: The following story ran in our June 2015 issue. In today’s celebrity-obsessed culture, the word hero gets bandied about far too often. But what other term would you use to describe ...

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The spacesuit worn by the first Briton in space, the Russian capsule that brought Britain's first professional astronaut back to Earth, and the only flown-to-the-moon Apollo command module to be on ...

(WHTM) On July 15, 1975, two rockets blasted off into space. The Soviet Union’s Soyuz 19 launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 8:20 a.m. EDT, carrying cosmonauts Alexey Leonov and Valery ...

This is the first major renovation to the Henry Crown Space Center since it opened in 1986. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A ...