"Soyuz and Apollo are shaking hands now!" Fifty years ago today (July 17), at 12:09 p.m. EDT (1609 GMT), history was made as two crewed spacecraft launched by two countries docked together in orbit ...

In this video, we focus on the Saturn V rocket, which successfully launched the Apollo spacecraft into orbit. Notably, there ...

"The Apollo spacecraft news reference has been prepared by Public Affairs, Space, at Grumman Aerospace Corporation, Bethpage, New York, in cooperation with the National Aeronautics and Space ...

GRAND RAPIDS, MI - When Samantha McClelland first walked into a meeting of the Grand Rapids Amateur Astronomical Association, she was the youngest in the room and one of only three women. In an essay ...

On Christmas Eve 1968, the Earth received a message from astronauts on a mission like no other - the first around the moon. NASA will return in 2026.

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 ...

"Apollo 13" stars Tom Hanks, the late Bill Paxton and Kevin Bacon as three NASA astronauts who must navigate safely back to Earth after their spacecraft encounters troubles on the way to the moon. To ...