Nearly 60 years ago, three Americans made history as the first humans to ever break free of Earth's orbit on their way toward the moon. And when they passed behind the moon to the side Earth never ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Did you know Seattle’s Museum of Flight features an entire exhibit dedicated to Project Apollo? Some of those missions paved the ...

You know, if you think about it, and trust me we're about to, the moon is kind of weird. Of all the terrestrial worlds of the solar system, we're the only one with a substantial natural satellite.

On July 31, two key events in lunar history occurred, both tied to Marshall Space Flight Center: Ranger 7's photos in 1964 and Apollo 15's moon drive in 1971.

Neil Armstrong almost made a mistake. He had found an interesting rock sticking out of a formation. Curious to see what the rock was made of, he needed to examine its interior more closely. So he ...

The names of Moon missions are not picked at random. They are chosen to tell a story. From Apollo, which marked the peak of the Cold War space race, to Artemis, which now defines NASA’s return to the ...

Apollo Lunar Sample Container No. 1008, triple-sealed, in which the Apollo 12 astronauts transported invaluable samples of moon back to Earth. Cade Martin It’s only the size of a suitcase, 8 by 19 by ...

CHICAGO — James Lovell — the commander of Apollo 13 who helped turn a failed moon mission into a triumph of on-the-fly, can-do engineering — has died. He was 97. Lovell died Thursday in Lake Forest, ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. A piece of moon rock gifted to Ireland following NASA's historic Apollo ...

It took 43 days and a custom cage to bring the 4.5-tonne test command module from Washington to Castle Hill in Sydney's north-west.