Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The broken circuit breaker switch that nearly ended Apollo 11 (below) and the pen that saved the crew and the mission. Several ...

Walter Cunningham, the last surviving astronaut from the first successful crewed space mission in NASA’s Apollo program, has ...

NASA astronauts Dave Scott and Jim Irwin landed the Apollo 15 lunar module Falcon in the Moon’s Hadley-Apennine region 55 years ago today, beginning one of the most scientifically ambitious missions ...

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Before etching their names in spaceflight history, the four Artemis II astronauts received some posthumous words of encouragement from one of NASA's greats. Jim Lovell, who flew on two Apollo-era ...

NASA's Apollo 11 computers helped land humans on the moon, but how does their computing power compare with the everyday ...

The Artemis II astronauts snapped a stunning shot of Earthset—the moment when Earth dips below the moon's horizon—on their long journey back home Tuesday after wrapping up a historic lunar flyby. NASA ...

The crew surpassed the Apollo 13 record of 248,655 miles on Monday at 12:56 p.m. Central time. The Artemis II astronauts reached a maximum distance of 252,756 miles at 6:02 p.m. FLYBY: The Artemis II ...