As Apollo 15 returned to Earth 55 years ago today, the spacecraft carried a first-of-its-kind lunar sample that would ...

These digits may seem like a random number sequence, but for a select few people in this country's history, they mean everything. More than 400,000 people worked tirelessly to put astronauts Neil ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Scientists continue to piece together the moon's complex history using lunar samples collected during NASA's Apollo missions over ...

NASA engineer Frances "Poppy" Northcutt and Apollo: Missions to the Moon director, Tom Jennings, talk about never-before-seen footage of NASA's historic expedition to the moon. Journalist Bonnie ...

After their Apollo 11 space capsule landed in the ocean on July 24, 1969, Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins were recovered by the USS Hornet. David Boitano tours the museum, talks with ...

NASA’s Apollo program made history from the launch of its very first manned spacecraft on Oct. 11, 1968. And now, almost 50 years later, “Apollo VII-XVII,” a new book from teNeues, relives the drama ...

On this day in aviation and space history, 57 years ago (October 10, 1968), NASA launched Apollo 7-the first successful crewed mission of the Apollo program. At precisely 15:02:45 UTC, a Saturn IB ...