On this date, Jan. 22, 1968, Apollo 5 launched in a major step forward for U.S. missions to the lunar surface. The Apollo 5 mission tested the Lunar Module in space for the first time, which was ...

Jim Lovell, an astronaut best known as the commander of the ill-fated Apollo 13, has died. He was 97. NASA announced his death Friday and included this statement from his family: “We are enormously ...

Andy Saunders, author of "Gemini and Mercury Remastered," talked about his process of remastering the most famous photographs of NASA's space program.

Nearly 50 years after Apollo 11's flight to the moon, a committee was formed to lead restorations on Historic Mission Control at the Johnson Space Center. People looked through countless videos and ...

Kenna Hughes-Castleberry is the Content Manager at Space.com. Formerly, she was the Science Communicator at JILA, a physics ...

"Thanks for all your effort," wrote the first moonwalker. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Neil Armstrong was appreciative, but as ...

Larry Bell (left) and Chet Vaughan worked for many years for NASA from the moon landings to the International Space Station. When former astronauts from the Apollo era pass away, it tends to make the ...

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER — It was a cloudy Saturday morning on the Space Coast when 12-year-old Tal Ramon anxiously waited with his family for the return of his father Ilan on Space Shuttle Columbia in ...

There’s a pained look on Dillon Hall’s face behind the space suit’s closed mask. The bulky gear he’s wearing from head to toe weighs 125 pounds. It’s a prototype of what NASA astronauts will don on ...