Nearly 60 years ago, three Americans made history as the first humans to ever break free of Earth's orbit on their way toward the moon. And when they passed behind the moon to the side Earth never ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. To achieve President John F. Kennedy's goal of landing a man on the moon and returning him home safely by the end of the 1960s, ...

Melinda French Gates grew up in a household where science, engineering and education were closely woven into family life. Her father, Raymond Joseph French Jr., was an aerospace engineer whose career ...

Columbus-born astronaut Donn Eisele was key to the Apollo 7 flight crew, but mission tensions and personal struggles made him ...

NASA Artemis astronaut emeritus program: Reid Wiseman and Victor Glover -- the only humans with firsthand Orion translunar ...

NASA's Apollo moonshots are a tough act to follow, even after all this time. As four astronauts get set to blast off on humanity's first trip to the moon in more than half a century, comparisons ...

The mission was the first lunar venture in over 50 years, following NASA’s Apollo 17 mission in 1972 ...

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Former Intergraph CEO, Chairman and founder Jim Meadlock, who early in his career at IBM wrote software that got NASA’s Apollo mission into space, has died, his wife Cindy said. He was 92. Meadlock ...

Stephen Smith is a managing editor for CBSNews.com based in New York. A Washington, D.C. native, Steve was previously an editorial producer for the Washington Post, and has also worked in Los Angeles, ...