There was an explosion on the spacecraft 200,000 miles from Earth, but miraculously everyone on board made it back home ...

As the Apollo 11 mission began its descent toward the lunar surface, astronaut Neil Armstrong’s heart pumped at a mere 75 beats per minute... just in line with the average American sitting on their ...

Commander Pat Shaw walked across the stage at Denfeld at the age of 17. He was the class of 1965. When he turned 18, he began his career in the Navy. He was a photographer during the Vietnam era, and ...

Vivian Ayers Allen, a Pulitzer Prize–nominated poet, cultural activist, and one of the "Hidden Figures" honored for contributions to the Apollo 11 mission, died Aug. 18, 2025. She was 102. The mother ...

Apollo astronaut Jim Lovell died six weeks before the movie about his rescue mission is set for a 30th anniversary rerelease in IMAX. Lovell, the 97-year-old Gemini XII and Apollo astronaut who died ...