When two Gemini 9 astronauts died attempting to land in a storm, it set off a chain of events that nobody in NASA's inner ...

To overcome the Earth’s orbital gravity, NASA required a rocket 100 times more powerful than the Mercury boosters that launched the first American astronaut into orbit in 1961. The three-stage Saturn ...

As the dust settled on the moon’s Sea of Tranquility after the landing engine of the Apollo 11 Lunar Module shut down, Commander Neil Armstrong’s steely voice crackled over the radio at Mission ...

Early Apollo Missions: Earth Orbit Apollo missions flew unmanned until October 11, 1968, when Wally Schirra, Donn Eisele and ...

Michael Collins, an American astronaut who was part of the famous Apollo 11 mission that first landed humans on the moon, has died. He was 90. His family confirmed the news Wednesday in a statement on ...