As NASA fought to catch up to the Soviet Union in the space race, they selected a Navy veteran as the first astronaut. But what happened once Alan Shepard stepped into the space capsule? Alan Shepard ...

The United States is no longer competing against a single rival in a largely symbolic race. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. This ...

Capt. Eugene Cernan bounded across the surface of the moon for the last time, clasped the ladder of Apollo 17 and paused. "I believe history will record that America’s challenge of today has forged ...

On Saturday, April 4, on the eve of Easter, as the Artemis 2 crew traversed cislunar space 180,000 miles (290,000 kilometers) from Earth, the pilot of Integrity, Victor Glover, was asked in a video ...

Robert Goddard, considered the father of modern rocketry, standing with a rocket in 1935. Esther Goddard/Hulton Archive/Getty Images Apollo 11 first landed astronauts on the Moon in 1969, but the ...