Whether Artemis ultimately fulfills its promise of sustained lunar exploration, or is reshaped by politics, budgets and ...

On Dec. 21, 1968, NASA’s Apollo 8 mission launched to the moon. Apollo 8 was the second crewed mission in NASA’s Apollo program. It was also the first mission to bring humans to the moon. It lifted ...

Journal Editorial Report: The week's best and worst from Allysia Finley, Mene Ukueberuwa and Kim Strassel. I am a patriotic American and a proud Jew. I consider it my civic duty to fight antisemitism ...

The Orion spacecraft being prepared for the Artemis 2 mission. Exploration programs would get a sharp funding increase in a House spending bill for fiscal year 2026. Credit: NASA/Rad Sinyak The recent ...

Lovell guided Apollo 13 back to Earth after a malfunction onboard. Jim Lovell, the commander of the famed Apollo 13 mission, has died, according to NASA. He was 97. "We are saddened by the passing of ...

He led the three-man crew that survived a near catastrophic explosion in space in 1970, and was later immortalized by Tom Hanks in the movie “Apollo 13.” James A. Lovell Jr., right, and Fred W. Haise ...

Famed NASA astronaut Jim Lovell, who commanded the harrowing Apollo 13 mission that was forced to abandon a lunar landing attempt in 1970, has died. He was 97. Lovell died on August 7 in Lake Forest, ...

"Apollo 13" stars Tom Hanks, the late Bill Paxton and Kevin Bacon as three NASA astronauts who must navigate safely back to Earth after their spacecraft encounters troubles on the way to the moon. To ...

The Apollo-Soyuz Test Project brought Soviet cosmonauts and NASA astronauts together in the first international human spaceflight. A 1973 artist’s concept of the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project, with the ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. In the world of "The Last of Us," the Apollo 15 command module and other space exploration ...

GM equipped a van with a prototype fuel cell hydrogen power system in the 1960s. NASA was simultaneously using fuel cells to generate electricity on Apollo missions. The powertrain took up so much ...

On April 4, 1968, NASA launched the final un-crewed test flight of its Saturn V rocket. The Apollo 6 mission demonstrated that the Saturn V rocket and the Apollo spacecraft were ready to send ...