On Jan. 27, 1967, NASA experienced its first space disaster - the deaths of three astronauts during a training excercise for the Apollo 1 mission. Pictured are the three Apollo 1 prime crewmembers ...

On March 3, 1969, NASA launched the Apollo 9 mission to test the first crewed Lunar Module spacecraft that would pave the way for future moon landings. See how the mission worked in photos here.

On July 24, 1969, the Apollo 11 capsule splashed down, and the astronauts were brought to the USS Hornet. "This year, on ...

Workers move a full-scale replica of the Apollo 1 command module into place inside the atrium of Purdue's Neil Armstrong Hall of Engineering on Wednesday (Oct. 17). The capsule, on loan from the ...

NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) captured the sharpest images ever taken from space of the Apollo 12, 14 and 17 landing sites. Images show the twists and turns of the paths made when ...

It gave two astronauts just 160 cubic feet of livable space for up to three days on the Moon, which was the length of Apollo 17’s stay. Sophisticated as the spacecraft were, the living ...

Apollo 11: The original moonwalk 28 photos Allan Needell, space history curator at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, described this project as an "indescribable thrill." ...

Liftoff of the Apollo 17 Saturn V Moon Rocket from Pad A, Launch Complex 39, Kennedy Space Center, Florida, at 12:33 a.m., December 17, 1972. Apollo 17, the final lunar landing mission, was the ...

Enhanced images reveal life aboard Nasa's stricken Apollo 13 spacecraft in unprecedented ... Experts at Nasa's Johnson Space Center in ... More restored images from the Apollo missions, ...

Stars don't show up in many space photos because they are too dim to be detected with the camera settings required to capture brighter objects. Our fact-check sources: Noah Petro , Dec. 12 ...

Image enhancement techniques have been used to reveal life aboard Nasa's stricken Apollo 13 spacecraft in unprecedented detail. Fifty years ago, the craft suffered an explosion that jeopardised ...