The voyage of Apollo 8 from December 21-27, 1968, marked humans' first venture to another heavenly body. "We were flying to the moon for the first time," said Jim Lovell, one of the three astronauts ...

American Optical sunglasses have been worn by JFK, Malcom X, at the Apollo 11 launch and they were made in Vernon Hills, ...

On the 56th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission landing on the moon, John was joined by "the godfather of the moon landing ...

ROME (AP) — Pope Leo XIV marked the 56th anniversary of man’s arrival on the moon Sunday with a visit to the Vatican ...

But since 2020, the Earth has repeatedly broken its own record, with the shortest day on record July 5, 2024, when the Earth ...

Draconian budget and staff cuts could mean another Challenger disaster, warn current and former NASA employees.

September 17, 1962 - Armstrong is part of the second group of men chosen by NASA to become astronauts. March 16, 1966 - Command Pilot of Gemini 8. Along with Pilot David Scott, Armstrong successfully ...

The moon's thin atmosphere, called an exosphere, has been a puzzle to science for some time. Two main processes were thought ...

Peering at the sunlit skies through a Vatican-owned space telescope and calling the last surviving member of the Apollo 11 spaceflight mission was how Pope Leo XIV celebrated the anniversary of the ...

On July 20, 1969, humans landed on the moon for the first time, and part of that achievement was made possible thanks to ...

There’s still more than a year’s worth of work to do on NASA’s future Artemis launch tower at Kennedy Space Center, but all of the big pieces have been put in place. The last of seven modular steel ...