In 1969, Apollo 11 astronauts, Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins, headed to the Moon without a traditional life insurance policy. The three astronauts were preparing for a mission that ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...