Photos taken by the India Space Research Organization moon orbiter Chandrayaan 2 recently show aerial images of Apollo 11 and ...

In 2024, the United States returned a spacecraft to the lunar surface, private astronauts accomplished historic firsts and ...

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology played a vital role in the moon landing and beyond, as did a Bay State-based ...

NASA's Apollo spacecraft had briefcase-size computers that for their day would normally have filled two rooms. Apollo Instruments has been able to shrink the Apollo Guidance Computer even more.

Apollo 10’s lunar module, Snoopy, is still out there, drifting aimlessly around the solar system, waiting for some future exo-archaeologist to snatch it up for display at the Smithsonian.

Experts were blindsided after Neil Armstrong's widow discovered a bag of technical items that were originally supposed to ...

Apollo 8, the first manned mission to the moon, entered lunar orbit on Christmas Eve, December 24, 1968. That evening, the astronauts–Commander Frank Borman, Command Module Pilot Jim Lovell ...

Apollo 8 was the first mission where humans orbited the moon and returned home, marking a huge step forward in human and ...

The Apollo 11 spacecraft was comprised of two vehicles: a command module named "Columbia" and the lunar module "Eagle." The earlier remained in lunar orbit with astronaut Michael Collins while ...

In 1972, Apollo 17 landed on the moon. It was the final Apollo lunar landing. Ron Evans was the command module pilot and Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt walked on the surface during the mission.

"Good night, good luck, a Merry Christmas, and God bless all of you—all of you on the good Earth" The Apollo 8 crew became ...

Recent photos taken by India’s Space Research Organization moon orbiter, known as Chandrayaan 2, clearly show the Apollo 11 and Apollo 12 landing sites more than 50 years later. The photos were ...