America's most daring, extraordinary feat—landing astronauts on the moon—remains the pinnacle of achievement by anyone ...

Just after landing on the Moon on July 20, 1969, Apollo 11 astronauts Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong took a walk along the ...

The 1960s were full of protests, and not all of them looked the same. This photo shows activist Shelly Drake removing their ...

In April, the world watched as NASA’s Artemis II successfully completed its nine-day mission of sending humans to the moon. In this bonus episode, we’re looking back at an archive interview about ...

In Kitakyushu City, Fukuoka Prefecture, there was once a space-themed amusement park called "Space World." In addition to attractions like roller coasters and a Ferris wheel, it also featured a space ...

The Apollo 11 Technical Crew Debriefing, conducted July 31, 1969, was released Friday as part of a broader declassification effort ordered by President Donald Trump. Apollo 11 was the first crewed ...

Legendary Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin recalled several “unusual” phenomena he and the crew encountered during the first moon-landing mission, according to a trove of UFO-related documents released ...

HUTCHINSON — 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, ...

Inside mission control during the dramatic rescue of Apollo 13. On April 17, 1970, the command module for the Apollo 13 spacecraft splashed down into the Pacific Ocean near the Samoan Islands with ...

The Apollo 13 mission was to land on the moon for a third, but it soon turned into a rescue mission. An oxygen tank exploded aboard the spacecraft, causing both the crew on board and ground control to ...

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