Fifty-one years ago this month, NASA’s Apollo 13 mission would have been the agency’s third Moon landing and lunar exploration mission. A movie and several books relate the story of this challenging ...

The spacesuit worn by the first Briton in space, the Russian capsule that brought Britain's first professional astronaut back to Earth, and the only flown-to-the-moon Apollo command module to be ...

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

NASA's Orion crew module test article is framed by the well deck of the U.S. Navy's USS Somerset as teams practice Artemis 2 ...

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

He was set for the ill-fated Apollo 13 mission, but crewmate Alan Shepherd, who'd been sidelined by inner-ear balance problems, needed more training. So his team — the third was command module p ...

The two Boeing Starliner astronauts left behind on the International Space Station are back on Earth, ending an odyssey that turned a planned eight-day trip into more than 9 1/2 months in space.

who flew on the space shuttle, Gemini, Apollo command module and Apollo lunar module spacecraft. The plight of the Starliner duo had become a political talking point after Elon Musk and President ...