While the crew of Apollo 9 was still orbiting Earth on this day in 1969, preparations were already underway on the ground for the next critical step in the race to the Moon.

When SpaceX CEO Elon Musk announced a pivot from Mars to the moon, one detail of his plan caused eyebrows to raise. Musk ...

Once America's most experienced astronaut, Apollo 13's Jim Lovell, who died at 97, was the first to visit the moon twice.

Jim Lovell, an astronaut best known as the commander of the ill-fated Apollo 13, has died. He was 97. NASA announced his death Friday and included this statement from his family: “We are enormously ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Famed Apollo astronaut Jim Lovell passed away on August 7 in Lake Forest, Illinois, at the age of 97. Jim Lovell was a key figure ...

On February 26, 1966, NASA reached a pivotal milestone in America’s race to the Moon with the first launch of an Apollo-Saturn IB rocket, known as AS-201, from Cape Kennedy—today’s Cape Canaveral.

This Smithsonian Snapshot marks the May 18, 1969, launch of the Apollo 10 mission. The Apollo 10 spacecraft launched from Cape Kennedy at 12:49 p.m. EST with commander Thomas Stafford, command module ...

These photos are out of this world. Thousands of images from the Apollo missions have been curated and re-released in a new gallery on Flickr. The images hail directly from NASA but have been ...

Recently, yet another Apollo astronaut, Jim Lovell, passed on. Lovell’s fame was as defined by his role as a pop culture icon as it was by his astronaut heroics. Everybody who came of age during the ...

A new analysis of Apollo moon samples reveals insight into the history of the lunar magnetic field.