However, during these early years of spaceflight, NASA engineers and astronauts cut their teeth on a variety of spaceflight ...

Johnson Space Center—and the private companies that rely on its business—needs a little help from Congress to remain the ...

This article is part of a series that will delve into the history of the Trinity Site Test, which marked its 80th anniversary ...

Longtime veterans of the space program, Chet Vaughan and Larry Bell, talk about the ceremonies they hold to honor those ...

By the early 1970s, the Apollo program ... Building a space station orbiting the Moon to support exploration. Establishing a base camp on the lunar surface to conduct long-term scientific research.

On August 23, 1966, NASA’s Lunar Orbiter 1 captured the very first photograph of Earth from the vicinity of the Moon, showing ...

The event that saved 1968 from an endless barrage of bad news was a journey that propelled three men nearly a quarter-million ...

he sample has been unopened since it was first collected in 1972. Dave Edey and Romy Hanna, UTCT, JSG/NASA Fifty years ago, the last human set foot on the Moon. The Apollo 17 mission brought back a ...

The August 7 death of astronaut James Lovell, best known as commander of the famed Apollo 13 spacecraft, has rekindled interest in legendary aerospace figure John Leland (Lee) Atwood of Valley Center ...

Your obituary “James Arthur Lovell Jr., 1928-2025” (Review & Outlook, Aug. 9) rightly highlights the Apollo 13 near-disaster and the heroism, resilience and competence of those who saved the ship and ...

It is proper that the moon was full Saturday, the day the headlines recorded the passing of Jim Lovell. It offered the opportunity for us to see the full face of the place where he never got the ...

Jim Lovell and Buzz Aldrin were friends for a long time. The legendary astronauts, globally known for their respective history-making Apollo missions, enjoyed a friendship that spanned decades. NASA ...