As 'Apollo 13' turns 30, we talk to legendary NASA flight director Gerry Griffin who helped make the film as realistic as ...

Space explorations go far beyond anything that any of us has imagined. But it also comes with a staggering price that costs ...

Experience the historic journey to the moon with this video detailing the Apollo 11 mission, which marked the first ...

After a midcourse correction and command and service module separation, Apollo 10 re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on May 26. Apollo 10 completed a flight of 192 hours, three minutes, 23 seconds ...

Command/Service Modules and the Lunar Module are shown docked with Astronaut David Scott standing up during the extravehicular activity (EVA) on the fourth day of the Apollo 9 earth-orbital mission.

16 x 20 cm. (6.3 x 7.9 in.) Though an Apollo 18 had initially been planned, the decision to scrap the project meant the ascent of Apollo 17’s LM “Challenger” also marked the end of all human visits to ...

Of course, it's almost impossible not to compare the Orion/ESA-SM combination to the old-school Apollo Command and Service Module. While at first glance, the two spaceships appear uncannily ...

Michael Collins—a two-time astronaut who piloted the command module during the historic Apollo 11 mission that landed the first humans on the Moon—died on Wednesday after battling cancer, his ...

Commander Alan Shepard, command module pilot Stuart Roosa, and lunar module pilot Edgar Mitchell crewed Apollo 14. Shepard famously was the first American and second human to fly into space on May ...

A SPICE simulation of Apollo 15's Command and Service Module in orbit around the Moon in 1971. Image: (ESA) Scientists at the European Space Agency are using a powerful new simulator to relive the ...

Comparison of the damaged service module of Apollo 13. At left, the familiar image. At center: a stack of eight frames of 16mm film. At right, a high resolution scan of the original transparency.