Apollo 16 launched to the moon! Apollo 16 was NASA's fifth lunar landing and the penultimate mission of the entire Apollo ...

(CBS) – On this day in history, April 16, 1972, the Apollo 16 blasted off from Cape Kennedy, Florida. Astronauts John Young and Charles Duke spent a record-breaking 71 hours on the moon. The ...

The Apollo 13 mission will forever be remembered as a testament to human ingenuity and the will to survive. Three NASA ...

In 1997, Tiger Woods, 21, won the Masters, the youngest golfer to accomplish that feat and the first Black American to win ...

By July 1963 NASA had discovered that 14 of its 16 astronauts could not fit into ... sight on board like I had for docking the [Apollo] command module with the lunar module. It was all feel." ...

Apollo 8 was the first mission when astronauts could admire their home planet as a small island of life hanging in the dark ...

The present image was taken by Astronaut Russell Schweickart, the lunar module pilot of the Apollo 9 Mission. In the background of the image, the Earth is visible. Command/Service Modules and the ...

A cargo plane flew the HALO module to the U.S. from Turin, Italy, where it was constructed by the company Thales Alenia Space ...

A gold watch gifted to Apollo 11 astronaut Neil Armstrong that "is symbolic of man's greatest achievement of the 20th century" is currently at auction.

The crew of the Apollo 11 mission, from left: mission commander Neil Armstrong, command module pilot Michael Collins and lunar module pilot Buzz Aldrin. NASA The 11 minutes of powered descent to ...