In fact, Jim Lovell was only one bad cough away from becoming the first man ever to set foot on the Moon. He was the backup commander for Neil Armstrong on Apollo 11, so if Armstrong had caught a cold ...

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

Apollo 11, the first US lunar landing mission, is launched at 9:32 a.m. Easter Daylight Time. The Cosmosphere in Hutchinson, Kansas, houses artifacts from the Apollo program.

The historic late 1972 launch of the Apollo 17 mission to the moon represented more than a space expedition to merely ...

July 20th is Moon Day, Space Exploration Day and the anniversary of the first Apollo 11 moonwalk. Here’s a look at the Apollo program and the new Artemis program to return to the lunar surface ...

Earlier, on Apollo 8, Lovell and his crew were the first humans to leave the Earth’s orbit to orbit the Moon, traveling more than half a million miles, at nearly 25,000 miles per hour.

More than 50 years after the last manned moon mission, the Apollo program is still making groundbreaking discoveries.

Analysis of Apollo 17 lunar soil reveals insights into landslide behavior, enhancing our understanding of lunar geology for ...