Stare into the open hatch of Odyssey, the scarred Apollo 13 command module in which three American astronauts made their ...

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. [...] ...

Humanity first reached the moon in 1969. We went back a few times, then lost interest within three short years, and we ...

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In a fitting parallel, Artemis II broke the deep-space distance record set by Apollo 13 in 1970. The Orion capsule reached a ...

The longtime Lake Forest resident and restaurant operator recorded a message before his death last year for the astronauts, ...

NASA's Artemis II crew captured stunning views of the Moon's far side, observed rare phenomena, and shared iconic images.

Monday is day 6 of the Artemis II mission in space, where the crew, according to NASA, is at its farthest point from Earth — ...

Astronaut Jim Lovell, who flew on two Apollo-era missions in 1968 and 1970, recorded a message for the Artemis II crew before ...

But Apollo 13 was never supposed to set a record. The crew were just trying to get home, and their only way back to Earth was ...

What began as a mission to land on the moon became history’s most harrowing space rescue after a technical failure forced the ...