Surrounded by a vast dark expanse, huddled in sleeping bags with three of your friends in a space the size of a five-person tent. This isn’t a camping trip ‒ it’s life on Orion ‒ the spacecraft ...

America is headed back to the moon for the first time in more than 50 years this week if all goes well on NASA’s Cape Canaveral launchpad. But first, four astronauts have to go to the dark side of the ...

The Artemis II mission, set to take off as early as Wednesday, and fly around the moon, is just the latest chapter in a long series of lunar exploratory space missions deployed by NASA over the last ...

The Artemis II astronauts will travel around the Moon in the Orion spacecraft. Esa / D. Ducros At 13:24:59 Central Standard Time on December 19 1972, the Apollo 17 command module splashed down in the ...

Nearly 60 years ago, three Americans made history as the first humans to ever break free of Earth's orbit on their way toward the moon. And when they passed behind the moon to the side Earth never ...

On March 3, 1969, Apollo 9 launched three astronauts on the first crewed test flight of NASA’s lunar module, which astronauts later used to land on the moon. Astronauts James McDivitt, David Scott and ...

Late last year, a team of engineers from the Northrop Grumman Corp. spent a week scouring thousands of archival documents at the Cradle of Aviation Museum on Museum Row in Uniondale. Museum curator ...

Eclipses don't happen at random — they arrive in pairs, on schedule, and 2026 brings two spectacular seasons to prove it. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. — The U.S. Space and Rocket Center has completed the annual cleaning of the Apollo 16 Command module. The work ensures the display is preserved for generations to come. The archives ...

On Feb. 6, 1971, Rear Admiral Alan B. Shepard Jr. closed out his moonwalk with one of the most famous golf shots of all time. Shepard, an avid golfer, hit two balls using his makeshift Wilson Staff ...