In 1962, President John F. Kennedy challenged the United States to do something no nation had ever done before: land a man on the Moon and bring him home safely. What followed was the Apollo program, ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. The lithium hydroxide canister was ...

Central Standard Time on December 19, 1972, the Apollo 17 command module splashed down in the Pacific Ocean, about 350 ...

Click to open image viewer. This 16mm data acquisition camera (DAC) was used to document the undocking of the Apollo 11 lunar module from the command module and its landing on the Moon on July 20, ...

The computer system aboard the current Artemis II lunar space mission is from a different world that the one from the Apollo ...

NASA's Apollo 8 mission was the first to orbit the moon. No US spacecraft has returned to the moon since 1972, but that's all ...

Many things have changed since the 1960s. At 13:24:59 Central Standard Time on December 19 1972, the Apollo 17 command module ...

NASA is set to launch the Artemis II mission, sending four astronauts on a trip around the moon. The first time they did this, it changed the world.

The Apollo missions to the moon established many of the guidelines that we still use for space travel today, with some modern ...

The astronauts of Artemis-2 are getting used to normal gravity after spending nine days in weightlessness. The yet-to-be name ...

NASA's Artemis 2 mission will send astronauts around the moon, paving the way for future lunar landings. See how it compares to Apollo 8.

The U.S. Navy doesn’t have a nuclear-powered carrier available, but the USS John P Murtha is well-suited to the recovery mission of the Orion space capsule ...