What began as a mission to land on the moon became history’s most harrowing space rescue after a technical failure forced the crew of Apollo 13 into a 200,000-mile race for survival.

Splashdown occurred in the Pacific Ocean at 1:07 p.m. April 17, after a flight that lasted five days, 22 hours and 54 minutes ...

As four astronauts whiz toward a flyby of the Moon, looking out for them are mission control experts using cutting-edge technology and lessons learned from the Apollo program 50 years ago. At the ...

Artemis II has now traveled further into space from Earth than any other human in history, passing the previous record set by Apollo 13 in 1970. Artemis II is in the middle of its 10-day mission to ...

Engineers and technicians monitor the Artemis 2 mission from the Lyndon B Johnson Space Center in Houston The NASA control room is at the same facility used in the Apollo missions of the 1960s and 70s ...