Apollo 8 was the first mission where humans orbited the moon and returned home, marking a huge step forward in human and ...

Space Communications Specialist Alexandra Doten, AKA Astro Alexandra, on the gear designed for future space travel, what will ...

The Space Race of the 1960s was a monumental period in history. The competition between the United States and the Soviet ...

Since Surveyors 1, 3, 5, and 6 successfully fulfilled requirements in support of Apollo, NASA opted to use the last remaining Surveyor for a purely scientific mission outside of a potential landing ...

The nickname “Buzz” came from the way his sister Fay Ann said the word buzzer instead of brother. As a fighter pilot in the Korean War, he completed 66 F-86 combat missions, destroyed two MiG’s, ...

An audit by NASA in 2011 found that at least 517 of their “astromaterial samples” were lost or stolen between 1970 and June ...

NASA's Apollo 8 mission in 1968 became the first human spaceflight to reach the Moon and back but an image repeatedly portrayed on social media as showing a couple watching its launch is digitally ...

The ground on Mars is full of nitrogen, a vital component for planet life, raising hopes that it might be more hospitable ...

In the first decades of the 21st century, NASA’s Artemis program aims to return humans to the Moon, thanks to international partnerships.

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology played a vital role in the moon landing and beyond, as did a Bay State-based ...