The Apollo missions showed exact science at work. Each part needed to be close to perfection from start to finish. NASA ...

Masursky, Harold, Colton, G. W., and El-Baz, Farouk. 1978. Apollo Over the Moon: A View from Orbit, NASA SP-362. Washington, D.C: NASA Scientific and Technical ...

On Christmas Eve 1968, the Earth received a message from astronauts on a mission like no other - the first around the moon. NASA will return in 2026.

When Apollo 11 arrived in lunar orbit, the Soviet's probe was already there. The space race between the U.S. and the Soviet Union continued even as Apollo 11 astronauts were already walking on the ...

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, Ill ...

The world had watched, spellbound, as Apollo 11 made mankind’s first landing on the moon in July 1969. Fewer people paid attention when NASA sent its second mission to the moon four months later: ...

Obit Jim Lovell, the former US astronaut and commander of the Apollo 13 mission, has died at the age of 97.… Lovell was selected as part of the second group of NASA astronauts in 1962, having missed ...