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An 18-karat gold version of the first watch worn on the moon has set a record for the most paid for an astronaut's timepiece.
The Apollo 13 mission will forever be remembered as a testament to human ingenuity and the will to survive. Three NASA ...
A Mississippi State alumnus who played a pivotal role in the Apollo 13 mission died on Monday. Robert ‘Ed’ Smylie was born in ...
Robert “Ed” Smylie stands next to the command center used during the Apollo missions. Smylie, an MSU alumnus who played a ...
Apollo 16 launched to the moon! Apollo 16 was NASA's fifth lunar landing and the penultimate mission of the entire Apollo ...
Command module pilot Jack Swigert uttered the famous words to Mission Control Center which have often been misquoted.
NASA is celebrating the 53rd anniversary of the Apollo 16 mission which touched down on the Moon on April 21. Besides being ...
The three crew members of the Apollo 11 mission were Commander Neil Armstrong, Command Module Pilot Michael Collins, and Lunar Module Pilot Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin. Armstrong was the astronaut ...
The goal is to turn the Moon into a scientific outpost, and that requires a payload delivery infrastructure far more capable than the Apollo Lunar Module (LM). NASA asked their commercial partners ...
Apollo 1 was meant to be the first crewed spaceflight ... of the moon but only spent 2 hours and 31 minutes outside the lunar module. They used this time to collect samples, take pictures, and ...