With two months to go before flight, the Apollo 13 prime crew of James Lovell, Thomas Mattingly, Fred Haise, and backups John ...

The Lunar Module (LM) lifts off from the lunar surface to dock with the Command and Service Module (CSM). It was a three-day journey home. After atmospheric re-entry and water landing, the astronauts ...

As NASA plans to establish a permanent Moon base via its Artemis program, it is looking to avoid the dangers of lunar ...

Carlos Villagomez owns a golf ball that he believes was flown to the moon. If indeed it was, he may also hold the answer to a bit of trivia that otherwise may be forever lost to time.

The comment, “OK, Boomer,” has become a popular way to dismiss people in their 60s and 70s as old and irrelevant. It’s ...

Humans (well, at least some of us) have turned their gaze skyward and envied the birds since time immemorial. From the mythical attempts of Icarus to take to the skies to DaVinci’s fanciful designs, ...

On February 5, 1971, astronauts Alan Shepard and Edgar Mitchell of Apollo 14 stepped foot on the lunar surface, becoming the 5th and 6th human to ever walk on the Moon. The landing took place in the ...

Apollo 14 lifted off from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center ... the Moon on February 5 in the Fra Mauro formation, the intended landing site for Apollo 13. Over two lunar excursions, they gathered ...

Before Apollo astronauts set foot upon the moon, much remained unknown about the lunar surface. While most scientists ...

Wrapping up his second of two moonwalks on NASA's 1971 Apollo 14 mission, Shepard took a swing at a couple of golf balls. "I have a little white pellet that's familiar to millions of Americans.