A young NASA engineer recognized an unusual pattern in the spacecraft's telemetry and made a recommendation that saved the ...

Apollo 14 carried tree seeds around the Moon in 1971, creating Moon Trees across America. Artemis I launched a new generation of seeds in 2022.

In December 1965, NASA asked North American Aviation to devise a backup mission for astronauts stranded on the Moon. The plan ...

Early Apollo Missions: Earth Orbit Apollo missions flew unmanned until October 11, 1968, when Wally Schirra, Donn Eisele and Walt Cunningham orbited the earth for ten days in an Apollo command-service ...

Video version (approx. 10 min): April 1970, Apollo 13 was heading to the moon. About 320,000 kilometers from Earth, an ...

All the major chapters in the American story, from Indigenous beginnings to the present day. Neil Armstrong’s celebrated “one small step” was far from the most dangerous maneuver in the effort to send ...

Buzz Aldrin (lunar module pilot), and Michael Collins (command module pilot). The first Moon mission will be called Apollo 11. Its three-person crew is Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Mike Collins.

Margaret Hamilton, a groundbreaking computer scientist who led the team that created the onboard flight software for NASA’s moon-bound Apollo program and later in life was celebrated as a powerful ...