Apollo 16 launched to the moon! Apollo 16 was NASA's fifth lunar landing and the penultimate mission of the entire Apollo program. Three NASA astronauts were on board: John Young, the commander, Ken ...

The documentary tells the story of Gus Grissom, Ed White and Roger Chaffee, who died after a fire erupted in their spacecraft on the launch pad.

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 ...

Live updates from Monday afternoon's SpaceX NROL-69 mission that launched a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.

Apollo 16’s mission ended April 27 of that year with crew, craft and cargo all splashing down safely in the Pacific.

Commander of the Apollo 14 lunar landing mission. No space program from any ... remains the biggest and most powerful rocket ever launched with the record for the largest payload capacity to ...

(Brandon Bell/Getty Images / Getty Images) The mission is poised ... in orbit" apart from the Apollo lunar missions. Chun detailed their "busy day" of pre-launch preparations on Sunday in an ...

Fram2 is set to launch no earlier than 9:46 p.m. EDT ... "With the exception of the Apollo lunar missions, the North and South Poles have not been fully visible to other astronauts in orbit ...

Lovell's career at NASA began in September 1962 and he embarked on his first space mission for the Gemini 7 mission on December 4, 1965. According to NASA, the flight lasted 330 hours and 35 minutes ...

Apollo/Saturn V Center (about 6.2 miles from the launch pad). Atlantis North Lawn (about 6.7 miles from the launch pad). Update 12:30 p.m.: The upcoming mission represents the National ...