A long-lost piece of an Apollo rocket has returned to Earth orbit after decades of racing around the sun, the first time our planet has captured an object from solar orbit, astronomers said Friday ...

Lightning struck Apollo 12's rocket, a Saturn V, twice during the launch. While the astronauts had some trouble with the displays on board after the lightning strikes, ...

A supercomputer simulation of the Apollo 12 landing on the moon was created to "improve its understanding of plume-surface interactions," according to NASA. Credit: Patrick Moran, NASA Ames Research ...

There was a lot we didn’t get to see when Apollo 12 blasted 50 years ago today on humans’ second trip to the moon’s surface. First was the liftoff. When astronauts Pete Conrad, Ri… ...

However, with Apollo 11’s success, Apollo 12 moved back, and on November 14, 1969 at 11:22 a.m. EST, astronauts Charles "Pete" Conrad, future lunar artist Alan L. Bean and Richard F. Gordon ...

The Saturn V rocket carrying the Apollo 12 crew was struck by lightning twice, ... The Apollo 12 mission ended with a successful splashdown just before 4 p.m. Eastern time on Nov. 24, 1969.

A Saturn V rocket launches NASA's Apollo 12 mission to the moon from the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida on Nov. 14, 1969. (Image credit: NASA) ...

Thanks to Amazon chief Jeff Bezos, NASA donates to Seattle’s Museum of Flight the restored remains of an Apollo 12 Moon mission rocket engine. The historic engine was recovered from the Atlantic ...

SAN FRANCISCO — When NASA's Apollo 12 rocket launched from Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Nov. 14, 1969, the sight was electrifying — and not in a good way. Moments after liftoff, at 36.5 ...

When historic rocket engine parts from the Apollo moon missions go on display in May in Seattle, museumgoers will be able to compare them with an intact F-1 engine.

Rocket Power. The new rocket is shorter and slimmer than the Saturn V rockets that hurled 24 Apollo astronauts to the moon a half-century ago. But it’s mightier, packing 8.8 million pounds (4 ...