For a decade, NASA promoted the idea of building a space station around the Moon known as the Lunar Gateway. It touted the ...

John Young and Charlie Duke were the next men to walk on the moon. When the crew reached lunar orbit, the mission almost had ...

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

The day Apollo 11 landed on the moon 40 years ago, it inspired Eddie Lee McGhee to name his newborn daughter after the lunar lander. But he didn't name her Eagle. He named her Module. Module McGhee ...

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 ...

For a generation born after the Apollo 17 mission in 1972, it represents not just a technical milestone, but a defining ...

Humanity first reached the moon in 1969. We went back a few times, then lost interest within three short years, and we ...

Apart from pesky issues with the spacecraft’s toilet and waste disposal system, most of the Artemis II mission has proceeded like clockwork. NASA has made few changes to the flight plan since the ...

In a fitting parallel, Artemis II broke the deep-space distance record set by Apollo 13 in 1970. The Orion capsule reached a ...

The longtime Lake Forest resident and restaurant operator recorded a message before his death last year for the astronauts, cheering their achievement. During their lunar flyby, the Artemis II crew ...

HISTORY MADE THIS AFTERNOON IN OUTER SPACE, THE ARTEMIS TWO CREW GOING FURTHER INTO SPACE THAN EVER BEFORE, AS THEY’RE NOW PERFORMING A VERY CRUCIAL LUNAR FLYBY. OUR FIRST ALERT METEOROLOGIST BROOKS ...