Apollo astronauts reached speeds exceeding 24,000 miles per hour on their way to the Moon, driven by a rocket that remains the most powerful ever flown. The Saturn V, standing 363 feet tall and ...

CHICAGO — James Lovell, the commander of Apollo 13 who helped turn a failed moon mission into a triumph of on-the-fly can-do engineering, has died. He was 97. Lovell died Thursday in Lake Forest, ...

After sitting untouched in storage for nearly 50 years, lunar samples collected during the Apollo 15, 16 and 17 missions will be studied for the first time, NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine ...

Now, scientists from the University of Oxford offer a resolution to the debate, reporting the moon could have experienced bursts of extremely strong magnetism long ago, but that these episodes would ...

CHICAGO (AP) — James Lovell, the commander of Apollo 13 who helped turn a failed moon mission into a triumph of on-the-fly can-do engineering, has died. He was 97. Lovell died Thursday in Lake Forest, ...

Shaving was something of a job on all the Apollo missions because in Zero-G, water doesn't just run off the face. Flickr/NASA Photo/ Project Apollo Archive The last human to walk on the moon was ...

LIBERTY — The historic late 1972 launch of the Apollo 17 mission to the moon represented more than a space expedition to merely collect rock samples from the lunar landscape while making history: It ...

These photos are out of this world. Thousands of images from the Apollo missions have been curated and re-released in a new gallery on Flickr. The images hail directly from NASA but have been ...

Imagine a rocket struck by lightning twice within a minute after launch, but the manned mission continued — to the moon, no less. On Nov. 14, 1969, 56 years ago today, the Apollo 12 mission launched ...

Capt. James A. Lovell, Jr., attends the 45th Anniversary of Apollo 8 ‘Christmas Eve Broadcast to Earth’ event at the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago on Dec. 23, 2013. AP File Photo Apollo 13 ...