With declining public interest in Moon missions, and government funding slashed, NASA focused on scientific research. But the ...

If you're looking for a good telling of the manned space program's story, you should start with James Donovan's Shoot for the Moon: The Space Race And The Extraordinary Voyage Of Apollo 11.

As America prepares to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Apollo moon landing, The New York Times is busy celebrating the Soviet space program and bashing America’s. A Times op-ed Thursday ...

Beginning in 1961, the Apollo program consisted of 11 total spaceflights; four of those tested equipment, and six of the other seven flights landed people on the moon, according to NASA.The first ...

The 20th century reverberations from the Apollo program in the continue to waft through our 21st century society — in a way that heralds striving for the once thought unattainable. So use of the ...

Apollo 5 Jan. 22–23, 1968: An unmanned test flight of the lunar module (LM) that would later carry astronauts to the moon’s surface. Apollo 6 April 4, 1968: The second test of the Saturn V. The rocket ...

Virgil "Gus" Grissom, Ed White and Roger Chaffee made up the first crew in the Apollo program. The three were scheduled to launch on Feb. 21 of that year for a flight that would orbit Earth.

Even as the Apollo program approached completion, the then-new Nixon administration chartered a Space Task Group on Feb. 13, 1969, under the chairmanship of Vice President Spiro T. Agnew, to plot ...

Former Apollo astronaut Alan Bean is considering the plight of Buzz Aldrin, who followed in the footsteps of the far more celebrated Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon. Bean ...