The mission was also Tom Stafford's last spaceflight. The Apollo Command Module Pilot, Vance Brand, would go on to fly on ...

Got a Space Nerd in your car, then you have to visit a NASA site. NASA Visitor Centers are scattered across the U.S. and are based at Space Centers and research facilities. There, visitors will get a ...

Apollo 16 astronaut Charlie Duke and space shuttle astronaut Nicole Stott will have profiles of their faces land on the moon.

Apollo 13 was NASA's third moon-landing mission but the astronauts never made it to the lunar surface. Explore the 'successful failure' in our Apollo 13 guide.

NASA's Vehicle Assembly Building: this giant rocket garage helped take America to the moon and stands poised to do so again.

The Apollo space program had to rely only on one-use hardware, but re-usable spaceships like this here shuttle were on the drawing boards ...

An incredible accomplishment in its own right, the shuttle project was a child of the optimistic post-Apollo era.

Astronaut Thomas K. Mattingly, a rear admiral who flew on Apollo 16 and two space shuttle missions, died Tuesday, according to a NASA news release.

An excerpt from The People's Spaceship: NASA, the Shuttle Program, and Public Engagement after Apollo by Amy Paige Kaminski.

The space shuttle project was forged in the optimism of NASA’s Apollo program, which landed 12 astronauts on the surface of the moon and bested America’s Soviet rivals during the Cold War.