On April 16, 1972, Apollo 16 launched to the moon! Apollo 16 was NASA's fifth lunar landing and the penultimate mission of the entire Apollo program. [‘On This Day in Space’ Video Series on Space.com] ...

For the first time in more than 50 years, humans are once again venturing to the Moon. Nasa’s Artemis program had sent four ...

This video explores the Apollo Lunar Module, the spacecraft that transported astronauts to the Moon's surface. It covers the two primary components of the module: the descent stage, which contained ...

In Greek mythology, Artemis is the twin sister of Apollo. In NASA history, the Apollo 8 mission laid much of the groundwork ...

On July 20, 1969, I was woken up in the early hours of the morning by my father, wrapped in a blanket and brought downstairs, writes Dr ...

Plans are in place for the crew of Artemis 2 to try to replicate one of the most famous images ever taken from space — Apollo ...

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This collection consists of one preliminary copy of the Apollo 15 Lunar Module LM-10 Flight Controller Systems Handbook, which consists mostly of tables and drawings. This preliminary copy was used in ...

The longtime Lake Forest resident and restaurant operator recorded a message before his death last year for the astronauts, ...

Whilst alone on the far side of the Moon, Apollo 10 astronauts heard eerie noises that sounded sort of like music.

With the spacecraft crippled and more than 210,000 miles from Earth, flight directors and engineers in Houston, led by Eugene ...