The Apollo spacecraft is a complex transportation system designed for lunar missions, standing 363 feet tall and weighing over 6 million pounds at launch. It consists of three main components: the ...

The Apollo moon program resulted in a legacy of thousands of images - all of them of immense value as both scientific and documentary records. Yet 30 years after the event most of them speak only ...

The Science Museum in London is closing its almost 40-year-old 'Exploring Space' gallery to establish a new 'Space' gallery ...

A private spacecraft has landed on the Moon, becoming only the second commercial vehicle to reach the lunar surface. Blue Ghost left Earth on January 15, after being launched by US firm Firefly ...

"I don't know that I could spend a month on a desert island with Frank [Borman]; we might tear each other apart before it was over. I might get two weeks in with [Jim] Lovell though." When the ...

The spacesuit worn by the first Briton in space, the Russian capsule that brought Britain's first professional astronaut back to Earth, and the only flown-to-the-moon Apollo command module to be ...