Read full article: Apollo 7 astronaut Walter Cunningham dead at 90 A spectator looks at a tiny piece of moon rock encased in a plastic globe, on display at the an exhibition commemorating the 50th ...

Over 11 years and 570 episodes, John Rabe and Team Off-Ramp scoured SoCal for the people, places, and ideas whose stories needed to be told, and the show became a love-letter to Los Angeles. Now, John ...

Apollo program and Artemis II look similar on the surface: giant rockets, astronauts, the Moon. But the deeper comparison is stranger. Artemis launched with computers roughly 20,000 times faster than ...

Even if Apollo was not America’s first space exploration program and, as it turned out, not even the most defining one from a scientific perspective, it is perhaps the most important to date as it’s ...

In 1972, Apollo 16 astronaut and moon walker Charlie Duke left a family photo on the lunar surface. Today that photo is long gone. But Duke’s visage is heading back to the moon this week, in a novel ...

Legendary astronaut John Young -- who twice ventured into space in pioneering two-man Gemini capsules, orbited the moon and then walked on its cratered surface before commanding two space shuttle ...

The flame trench beneath launch complex 39A (LC-39A) recently tasted fire for the first time since 2011 when the Space Shuttle Atlantis lifted off on the final mission in the program. SpaceX completed ...

WASHINGTON — NASA will honor astronaut Thomas K. “Ken” Mattingly, II, with the presentation of an Ambassador of Exploration Award for his contributions to the U.S. space program. During a ceremony on ...

One of the three large steel platforms that supported the launch of NASA's Apollo and space shuttle missions is now being demolished — due to a lack of space. Fifty years ago this month, Mobile Launch ...

After years of development and decades of flying, the now-cancelled space shuttle program has left more to future generations than pieces for museums and fond memories of exploration. Its legacy lives ...

NASA’s most tragic events happened 55 years ago, 36 years ago and 19 years ago with the deaths of 17 men and women in the Apollo 1 fire, Space Shuttle Challenger explosion on liftoff and Space Shuttle ...