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 ...

Apollo 1 was meant to be the first crewed spaceflight of the Apollo program, but a fire during a test killed all three of the astronauts inside the command module ... Apollo 16 and 17 but was ...

Exploration has never been a safe occupation. For every significant discovery, there has been sacrifice by those seeking out ...

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

These NASA missions were not only a steppingstone to the Moon, but influenced many aspects of the way humans still travel ...

Kyra has an impressive list of ancestors including William Ellery, a signatory of the Declaration of Independence, Robert Sedgwick, a general who was one of the first arrivals in America from England ...

Glenn/UPI In 1970, an oxygen tank exploded aboard Apollo 13 en route to a planned moon landing and one of the three astronauts aboard, Jack Swigert, the command module pilot, famously said ...

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." ...