Before Apollo, there was Gemini, and before Gemini, there was the Mercury program. This episode examines Mercury, the first U.S. program to put a man in space. It looks at the people, such as ...

In this photo provided by NASA, astronaut Charles M. Duke Jr. collects lunar samples at Station No. 1 during the first Apollo 16 extravehicular activity at the Descartes landing site, April 21, 1972. ...

With 4300 signatures on the “Save The LUT” petition on Wednesday, and media coverage accelerating, the Space Restoration Society will seek to forestall the planned demolition of the historic Apollo ...

CNN Films' documentary "Apollo 11" uses newly discovered footage and hours of uncatalogued audio recordings to tell the story of the 1969 moon landing with new clarity. Though July 20, 1969 is ...

All eyes are on NASA’s historic Artemis II launch with the countdown now ticking past T-2 days. The crew of four astronauts ‘paused’ the pressure around them and lightened things up for a moment.

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) After all, NASA had the know-how and technology to send humans to the lunar surface ...

NASA is officially counting down to something we haven’t seen in more than half a century — a mission to send humans back to the Moon. For the first time since the Apollo 17 mission, NASA is preparing ...