There’s an Apollo module on display in Michigan and its cold-war backstory is even more interesting than its space program origins. Everyone who visits the Van Andel Museum Center in Grand Ra… ...

Veteran of four spaceflights dies at 97 Obit Jim Lovell, the former US astronaut and commander of the Apollo 13 mission, has ...

The space explorer was determined throughout his life, says Teasel Muir-Harmony, the curator of the Apollo Collection at the ...

Once America's most experienced astronaut, Apollo 13's Jim Lovell, who died at 97, was the first to visit the moon twice.

Later Apollo Missions: Moon Explorers With one exception, subsequent Apollo missions put ten more men on the moon. Pete Conrad, Dick Gordon and Alan Bean collected rocks from the Ocean of Storms ...

FILE – This combination of photos shows the Saturn V rocket with Apollo 12’s spacecraft aboard on the launch pad at the Kennedy Space Center in 1969, left, and the new moon rocket for the ...

Courtesy photo Estella Koch helps to prepare the Apollo capsule for transportation to the restoration location. A 9,000-pound cone-shaped hunk of metal rusting away on a Mercer County farm for ...

Despite Jim Lovell's physical similarities to actor Kevin Costner, Tom Hanks would portray Lovell in the movie "Apollo 13." ...

At 16.5 feet in diameter, Orion's heat shield is the largest ever built, more than 25% wider than an Apollo capsule's. Lead contractor Lockheed Martin says the capsule has the volume of two minivans.

The SpaceX Dragon crew capsule, set to launch Wednesday from Cape Canaveral, outshines NASA’s old Apollo spacecraft in virtually every way. This illustration made available by SpaceX depicts the ...