Despite internet rumors when Air Force crews arrived at a Mexican airport, the mission's real challenge was finding enough ...

Most people in Central Florida recognize the name John Young because it appears on a major Orlando roadway and even an ...

On February 5, 1971, two Apollo 14 astronauts landed on the moon! Apollo 14 commander Alan Shepard and the lunar module pilot Edgar Mitchell left their crewmate Stuart Roosa in the command module and ...

SpaceX launched 26 missions from Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Pad 39-A in 2025 including four human spaceflight missions. That era is coming to an end.

Four astronauts are blazing NASA's trail back to the moon. Their mission, which could launch Feb. 8, will take them farther from Earth than humanity has ever gone before.

Not only will Artemis II be the first mission to reach the moon in more than half a century, it will also represent a significant demographic and cultural shift. Koch will be the first woman to go to ...

The Cosmosphere is hosting a "13 Days of Christmas" movie series from December 12 to 24. The series will feature a different classic or modern holiday film each night in the Justice Planetarium. The ...

Dec. 11 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1816, Indiana joined the United States as its 19th state. In 1936, Britain's King Edward VIII abdicated to marry American divorcee Wallis Warfield Simpson.

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 ...

Apollo 7, crewed by Walter Schirra Jr., Donn Eisele, and Walter Cunningham, represented the first manned American spaceflight 21 months after the Apollo 1 fatal accident. Launching on October 11, 1968 ...

Born on March 25, 1928, in Cleveland, Lovell was a child of the Great Depression, his early years shaped by loss and curiosity. His father died in a car crash when Jim was 12, prompting his mother to ...

HUTCHINSON, Kan. (KSNW) – The Cosmosphere is honoring the memory of the doomed Apollo 13 Mission Commander Jim Lovell. Official photo of Commander Jim Lovell (Courtesy NASA) Lovell served as commander ...