During a routine ground test in January 1967, astronauts Gus Grissom, Ed White, and Roger Chaffee were sealed inside their Apollo command module when a sudden fire erupted inside the oxygen-filled ...

Stare into the open hatch of Odyssey, the scarred Apollo 13 command module in which three American astronauts made their ...

On April 16, 1972, Apollo 16 launched to the moon! Apollo 16 was NASA's fifth lunar landing and the penultimate mission of ...

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 ...

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

What began as a mission to land on the moon became history’s most harrowing space rescue after a technical failure forced the ...

For the first time in 54 years, American astronauts are heading back to the moon. The Artemis II is set to launch on April 1, after years of delays and concerns regarding landing sites and the ...

The crew just surpassed the record previously set by the Apollo 13 astronauts in 1970 for the farthest distance ever traveled from our home planet.

RR Auction’s April 23 sale features Gene Cernan’s thrice‑flown 1953 $2 note—the only paper money carried in Earth and lunar ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In some respects, it doesn't seem that long ago. It's been 65 years — within the lifetime of many on Earth today — since men first ...

When Reid Wiseman ‘97 strapped into the Orion spacecraft in April for humanity's first lunar voyage in more than half a ...

Astronaut Jim Lovell, who flew on two Apollo-era missions in 1968 and 1970, recorded a message for the Artemis II crew before his death in 2025.