After nearly five months onboard the International Space Station, an international crew of four astronauts began their descent back down to Earth in a SpaceX capsule Friday. The Dragon capsule of ...

Tom Hanks has paid an emotional tribute to the famed astronaut he portrayed in Apollo 13. It was announced yesterday (8 ...

Apollo 13 mission commander and astronaut Jim Lovell has died at the age of 97. “We are saddened to announce the passing of ...

Second Lady Usha Vance visited NASA’s Johnson Space Center on Aug. 4 to host her summer reading challenge event. Joined by ...

Lovell commanded the Apollo 13 mission that almost ended in disaster after an explosion that threatened the crew's oxygen and ...

US astronaut Jim Lovell, the commander of the Apollo 13 Moon mission which nearly ended in disaster in 1970 after a mid-flight explosion, has died at the ...

James A. “Jim” Lovell Jr., the NASA astronaut who famously led the Apollo 13 mission through a life-threatening crisis in ...