If you're looking for a good telling of the manned space program's story, you should start with James Donovan's Shoot for the Moon: The Space Race And The Extraordinary Voyage Of Apollo 11.

With declining public interest in Moon missions, and government funding slashed, NASA focused on scientific research. But the ...

As America prepares to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Apollo moon landing, The New York Times is busy celebrating the Soviet space program and bashing America’s. A Times op-ed Thursday ...

The 20th century reverberations from the Apollo program in the continue to waft through our 21st century society — in a way that heralds striving for the once thought unattainable. So use of the ...

Virgil "Gus" Grissom, Ed White and Roger Chaffee made up the first crew in the Apollo program. The three were scheduled to launch on Feb. 21 of that year for a flight that would orbit Earth.

Former Apollo astronaut Alan Bean is considering the plight of Buzz Aldrin, who followed in the footsteps of the far more celebrated Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon. Bean ...

Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has been mapping and photographing the Moon in high-definition since 2009. ... The U.S. spent $25.8 billion on Project Apollo between 1960 and 1973, ...

Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has been mapping and photographing the Moon in high-definition since 2009. ... The U.S. spent $25.8 billion on Project Apollo between 1960 and 1973, ...

Walter “Walt” Cunningham, a retired NASA astronaut and pilot of the first crewed flight in the space agency’s famed Apollo program, died early Tuesday morning at the age of 90, NASA said.