Apollo 16 launched to the moon! Apollo 16 was NASA's fifth lunar landing and the penultimate mission of the entire Apollo ...

Command module pilot Jack Swigert uttered the famous words to Mission Control Center which have often been misquoted.

Kennedy’s challenge to land a man on the moon in 1969 a reality. They flocked to the Apollo program for many reasons. Some relished the idea of exploring new worlds. Others were inspired by a ...

The Apollo 13 mission will forever be remembered as a testament to human ingenuity and the will to survive. Three NASA ...

Find out more about the Apollo 11 mission below ... In the run-up to the Moon landing, the US was competing with the Soviet Union in something called the space race. This was a competition ...

(CBS) – On this day in history, April 16, 1972, the Apollo 16 blasted off from Cape Kennedy, Florida. Astronauts John Young and Charles Duke spent a record-breaking 71 hours on the moon. The ...

Damian Dovarganes / AP Images Buzz Aldrin, 79, the second man to walk on the moon, recently published Magnificent Desolation, his memoir about his life since the 1969 lunar landing. He spoke with ...

After the fire, NASA made several changes and improvements to the Apollo program and vehicles. The Earthrise photo. After landing on the Moon on July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin spent ...

NASA websites have dropped references to landing the first woman on the moon as part of the goals for its Artemis program.

On April 11, 1970, the Apollo 13 spacecraft was launched from Cape Canaveral, Fla., on the third U.S. moon-landing mission.

Kennedy’s challenge to land a man on the moon in 1969 a reality. They flocked to the Apollo program for many reasons. Some relished the idea of exploring new worlds. Others were inspired by a ...