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CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Apollo 11 command module Columbia on temporary cradle. Photo by Eric Long, National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution The last time ...

Buzz Aldrin, the second man and only one of 12 to ever walk on the moon, turns 96 today. He's just one of four living ...

The Artemis II mission is scheduled to begin as soon as next month with the Cosmosphere already planning a watch party for ...

When Neil Armstrong Aldrin reflected on Apollo 11, they were looking backward at a moment that reshaped history.

The final Apollo mission closed a historic chapter while quietly sparking the fire for today’s return to the Moon.

While Alan Shepard played one of the worst rounds of Moon golf on record, an experiment was circling the Moon 34 times on ...

Richard “Dick” F. Gordon Jr. was born in Seattle on Oct. 5, 1929. He graduated from UW with a bachelor’s degree in chemistry in 1951. By graduation, Gordon had not yet set his sights on being one out ...

On this day in 1969, NASA formally announced the prime crew selected to carry out the Apollo 11 mission, a decision that would soon mark one of the most defining moments in human history.

When fire breaks out in the low-gravity, high-stakes conditions inside spacecraft or space stations, it behaves very ...

[Mike Stewart] powers up a thrust meter from an Apollo lunar module. This bit of kit passed inspection on September 25, 1969. Fortunately [Mike] was able to dig up some old documentation which ...

Hundreds of NASA employees and contractors are working the three-day holiday weekend in an effort to attempt something that hasn’t happened since December 1972: sending astronauts to the moon.