On 1972, Apollo 16 launched to the moon! Apollo 16 was NASA's fifth lunar landing and the penultimate mission of the entire ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. The lithium hydroxide canister was ...

Splashdown occurred in the Pacific Ocean at 1:07 p.m. April 17, after a flight that lasted five days, 22 hours and 54 minutes. [...] ...

For the first time in more than 50 years, humans are once again venturing to the Moon. Nasa’s Artemis program had sent four ...

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 ...

The historic computer software code that took Apollo 11 to the moon has been open-sourced and is available to anyone to read, ...

During a routine ground test in January 1967, astronauts Gus Grissom, Ed White, and Roger Chaffee were sealed inside their Apollo command module when a sudden fire erupted inside the oxygen-filled ...

The mission’s goal was to land astronauts on the Moon’s Fra Mauro region and conduct scientific experiments, including ...

But Apollo 13 was never supposed to set a record. The crew were just trying to get home, and their only way back to Earth was ...

When Apollo 12, NASA's second lunar landing mission, launched from Kennedy Space Center, the space vehicle was struck by lightning— twice.

Orion's interior space is equivalent to that of two minivans, NASA says. That's a lot more breathing room than space capsules ...

On Christmas Day 1968 Michael Collins, who would later be the pilot of Apollo 11’s command module, Columbia, relayed a ...