The Apollo missions showed exact science ... lead many inventions we use day to day. Astronauts got to the moon by traveling on a giant rocket (Saturn V) that launched them into space carrying ...

NASA's first flight of the space shuttle in 1981 did have astronauts onboard, and while the Saturn V rocket did have a few flights under its belt before Apollo 8, that mission did send astronauts ...

Astronauts will drive on the Moon again after Nasa chose ... will be an updated version of the “Moon Buggy” which was driven by Apollo astronauts in the 1970s – a car designed by Boeing ...

In 1972, Apollo 16 astronaut and moon walker Charlie Duke ... For this trip, which began with last Wednesday’s launch of the rocket toting the Athena lander, the data storage device will have ...

Astronaut Fred Haise shared his dramatic experiences aboard Apollo 13 in 1970. Apollo 13 was the seventh crewed mission in the Apollo space program and would have been the third moon landing in 1970.

The module's descent stage - lower part with a big rocket engine - took Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin to the lunar surface on July 20, 1969. The vehicle's blocky upper ...

Half a century ago, on July 16, 1969, the Apollo 11 astronauts took off for the moon. Neil Armstrong, Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin, and Michael Collins arrived four days later to a place no human being had ...