On Tuesday, two NASA astronauts who had been in orbit since June, Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore, splashed down in calm, ...

Come see inside the Lunar Module using 3D animation. The Apollo Lunar Module was the part of the Apollo Spacecraft that landed on the moon. The LM was split up into two parts - the ascent stage and ...

Wilmore and Williams, both former U.S. Navy test pilots, expected to remain in orbit for about 10 days on the mission, which ...

On January 27, 1967, during a practice launch countdown, a flash fire erupted inside the sealed cockpit ... fire enabled us to vastly improve the Apollo capsule, so I am convinced that the ...

Lunar coordinates and messages on the walls inside the Apollo 11, the spacecraft that took the first manned mission to the moon in 1969, can now be seen closely. Officials at the Smithsonian’s ...

Michigan is sure to see the Apollo Command Module flanking the front entrance. Right now it’s being used as a different kind of capsule: a time capsule they’ll open in 2076 (the American ...

Prior to venturing outside, the crew began slowly lowering the pressure inside the spacecraft to become accustomed ... any human has ventured since NASA's Apollo missions half a century ago.

The pair of NASA astronauts who have been in space for over nine months returned to Earth Tuesday after a new crew to replace them reached the ISS over the weekend.

Physically, the men were all superficially similar, all about five feet nine inches tall (plus or minus two inches) to fit inside ... that spacecraft led to the change in Apollo 8's mission.