Apollo 14, the first lunar space mission after the crisis of Apollo 13, successfully landed on the Moon on Feb. 5, 1971.
Derry native Alan Shepard wasn't the first person to walk on the moon, but he was the first to hit a golf ball while up there ...
The Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum will award its 2026 Michael Collins Trophy to Farouk El-Baz for Lifetime ...
Astronauts are flying to the moon for the first time since 1972, and scientists are preparing specialized space suits for the ...
Space has long been a matter of great curiosity and perplexity for humans. Astronauts ...
NASA’s Artemis II mission to carry four people around the moon and back could launch as early as this Sunday, Feb. 8. Backup ...
NASA is now targeting March for the earliest possible launch of its historic Artemis II lunar mission, which will send four astronauts into deep space for the first time since the Apollo program ended ...
Several robotic spacecraft orbiting the Moon can take detailed pictures of its surface, so why send people around the Moon? A ...
There is now a $2 fee to toss coins into Rome’s Trevi Fountain — but some tourists are ignoring the new rules altogether. A city official said patrols may be introduced after visitors this week flung ...
Apollo 8’s lunar mission ended aboard USS Yorktown. A new Patriots Point exhibit reveals how the carrier recovered the astronauts after their splashdown.
Ahead of the launch of Artemis II, the first crewed mission to the moon in more than 50 years, astronauts share the movies ...