The Lunar Module (LM) lifts off from the lunar surface to dock with the Command and Service Module (CSM). It was a three-day journey home. After atmospheric re-entry and water landing, the astronauts ...

British start-up, Apollo Instruments, has meticulously recreated the computer from NASA's 1960 s Apollo spacecraft in ...

"Thanks for all your effort," wrote the first moonwalker. Neil Armstrong was appreciative, but as explained in his ...

Aldrin is still planting flags 56 years after he did so on the moon, only now it is in a commercial asking "Can you text me ...

CAPE KENNEDY -- America's first three Apollo astronauts died only 218 feet off the ground Friday night in a blazing explosion inside their space capsule atop its launch pad. An electrical spark ...

Duke took the flags with him to the Moon on Apollo 16 in 1972. “We are grateful to General Duke for this generous ...

It has been 54 years since NASA landed astronauts on the Moon for the third time. On February 5, 1971, astronauts Alan ...

Apollo 17 (1972) broke the mold a bit. Gene Cernan commanded the mission and Harrison “Jack” Schmidt, a geologist and the only scientist to fly on Apollo, was the lunar module pilot.

The Apollo 11 commander and his crewmates had already arrived at a design to represent the first moon landing. Armstrong's note and the mission patch proposal that inspired it are up for auction ...