This is the dramatic story of NASA's Apollo Program, beginning with President Kennedy's ambitious deadline for a lunar landing by the end of the decade, in response to Soviet success with Sputnik and ...

The Apollo program was the first to bring humans to the moon. Even though the program began in the early 1960s until 1972, with 12 astronauts walking the moon's surface during this time frame, there ...

We had an interesting salon gathering recently at the Barnes & Noble bookstore café. Joel Levine, who for 41 years served as a senior scientist at NASA, currently serves as a research professor in the ...

James A. Lovell Jr., the commander of the Apollo 13 mission, led the three man crew, narrowly surviving a near catastrophic explosion in space in 1970. By Jamie Leventhal He led the three-man crew ...

San Diego Air & Space Museum. (Photo by Chris Stone/Times of San Diego) Those who planned, ran, and piloted the Apollo Program will be venerated Saturday at the San Diego Air & Space Museum for the ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV) - July 16, 1969. 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 ...

NASA’s Apollo program, a monumental endeavor spanning from 1961 to 1972, culminated in the historic Apollo 11 mission that landed the first humans on the Moon on July 20, 1969. The program’s total ...

Indiana Jones changes the course of space history in his fifth and final big screen adventure. The fedora-wearing, whip-bearing archeologist (played by Harrison Ford) crosses paths with four of NASA's ...

No explorers ever traveled farther from home than the Apollo astronauts. As artists, they’re still underrated. By Jason Farago James A. Lovell Jr., the commander of the Apollo 13 mission, led the ...