NASA's Apollo program transformed a series of experimental rocket launches into six successful crewed Moon landings, ...

During Apollo 11, Buzz Aldrin and his fellow astronauts observed an unusual object while traveling toward the Moon. Their ...

A half-century ago, in the middle of a mean year of war, famine, violence in the streets and the widening of the generation gap, men from planet Earth stepped onto another world for the first time, ...

All the major chapters in the American story, from Indigenous beginnings to the present day. Yet just a few years later, some people claimed the “giant leap for mankind” had been faked. Conspiracy ...

Margaret Hamilton, who coined the term “software engineering” and led the development of on-board flight software for NASA’s Apollo program in the 1960s, died last week at the age of 90. A recipient ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The broken circuit breaker switch that nearly ended Apollo 11 (below) and the pen that saved the crew and the mission. Several ...

Author Charles Fishman discusses how critical parts of the Apollo program relied on handcrafted materials – even the computers! Congress declares new nation’s capital shall rise along the Potomac ...

Neil Armstrong's inflight coverall jacket is up for sale in an Oct. 17 online charity auction, and a sale estimate ranges from $800,000 to $1.2 million.

With NASA and astronauts turning their focus to landing on the Moon again by early 2028 in the Artemis program, people are once again showing an appreciation for what NASA accomplished by landing ...