It was 49 years ago today, January 27, 1967, that...  ...January 27, 1967, that a launch rehearsal for the Apollo 1 mission turned into a tragedy. The launch was s...  ...pening again. You can read the whole story of the Apollo

Randall Munroe, the roboticist and artist behind t...  ...Ron Evans. These are astronauts who stayed in the Apollo command module in lunar orbit while other astrona...  ...tions. We can be sure about only the isolation of Apollo astronauts.Were they lonely? Probably not. Mike C...  ...they lonely? Probably not....

The NASA spacesuit is a marvel of engineering. A s...  ...naut to move and work. During preparation for the Apollo missions to the moon, NASA held competitions to d...  ...onchaux, author of the book Spacesuit: Fashioning Apollo , about the suit Playtex made and the upcoming mov...  ...at Playtex entered this co...

Like everything else in the Apollo 11 program, the construction, transportation and...  ...ag assembly began about three months prior to the Apollo 11 mission. Robert Gilruth, Director of the Manne...

I recently took a trip to NASA's Jet Propulsion La...  ...rooms that NASA used to control all the unmanned Apollo missions in the '60s, as well as practically ever...

(YouTube link) Astronaut John Young, commander...  ...YouTube link) Astronaut John Young, commander of Apollo 16, tells a story during the April 1972 mission....

If you followed the mission of Apollo 13 in 1970 or saw the 1995 movie Apollo 13, you may have noticed that NASA Flight Directo...

Apollo 8 wasn't just a NASA mission; it was the biggest,...  ...wing Christmas special of all time. The men of Apollo 8 -Frank Borman, James Lovell, and William Anders...  ...and ended the show, saying, "And from the crew of Apollo 8, we close with a good night, good luck, a...

NASA has just released new images...  ...NASA has just released new images of the Apollo landing sites on the Moon (or Burbank s...  ...crisscross the surface in this LRO image of the Apollo 17 site. In the thin lunar soil, the...

Photo: Alan Boyle / MSNBC...  ...they're made from components of NASA's Apollo lunar modules. Alan Boyle of MSNBC writes:...  ...in 1970, when NASA decided to cut the Apollo moon program short. The Apollo 18, 19 and 20 missions were canceled,...