Splashdown occurred in the Pacific Ocean at 1:07 p.m. April 17, after a flight that lasted five days, 22 hours and 54 minutes ...

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

With the spacecraft crippled and more than 210,000 miles from Earth, flight directors and engineers in Houston, led by Eugene ...

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What began as a mission to land on the moon became history’s most harrowing space rescue after a technical failure forced the crew of Apollo 13 into a 200,000-mile race for survival.

But Apollo 13 was never supposed to set a record. The crew were just trying to get home, and their only way back to Earth was ...

More than half a century after Apollo 13’s crippled spacecraft set an unplanned distance record in a desperate loop around the Moon, Artemis II is chasing that same frontier on purpose. NASA’s first ...

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The Apollo missions to the moon established many of the guidelines that we still use for space travel today, with some modern ...