On April 4, 1968, NASA launched the final uncrewed test flight of its Saturn V rocket. The Apollo 6 mission demonstrated that the Saturn V rocket and the Apollo spacecraft were ready to send ...

Click to open image viewer. The Lunar Module Ascent Engine was used to lift up the ascent stage of the Lunar Module (LM) from the surface of the Moon and then dock with the Command Module (CM) ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This is a Lunar Module Ascent Engine ...

For the first time in more than 50 years, humans are once again venturing to the Moon. Nasa’s Artemis program had sent four ...

U.S. astronauts have left many objects behind on the moon, but few are quite as touching as this family photo that an ...

The four NASA Artemis II astronauts will swing around the far side of the moon, venturing deeper into space than any humans in history.

After months of anticipation, the monumental 10-day Artemis II mission, which sent four astronauts on a record-breaking flyby ...

In the heady days of the 1960s, at the peak of the Cold War, the US and the Soviet Union were locked in a Space Race. The Soviet Union took the lead: they launched the first satellite, the Sputnik, in ...

Houston, we have a list of great museums where you can learn about the science of outer space and the history of space travel. Inside the American Museum of Natural History's glass cube, the Frederick ...

Just like the Apollo missions, Artemis II will be run from a mission control monitoring every instrument from here on Earth. How has it changed since the days of the space race? The rocket scientists ...

Lift-off! Nasa astronauts aboard the Artemis II spacecraft have blasted off for the Moon on the furthest journey from Earth ...