On September 14, 1959, the Soviet Union’s Luna 2 spacecraft became the first man-made object to reach the Moon. The mission, ...

At the start of a talk at the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference in Houston in March, Harrison Schmitt, one of the two astronauts who walked on the moon during Apollo 17, the last lunar mission, ...

Letters selected from Purdue University Archives and Special Collections' larger Barron Hilton Flight and Space Exploration Archives, established in 2011 Summary "In the years between the historic ...

In the years of the Cold War, the US and the Soviet Union tussled to prove their superiority by rushing to become the first nation to put a man on the moon. While America might have claimed that ...

James Lovell, a member of humanity's first trip to the moon and commander of NASA's ill-fated Apollo 13 mission, has died at the age of 97. Lovell's death on Thursday was announced by the space agency ...

MIAMI (AP) — Apollo 14 astronaut Edgar Mitchell, who became the sixth man on the moon when he and Alan Shepard helped NASA recover from Apollo 13's "successful failure" and later devoted his life to ...

Artemis II mission will launch Canadian astronaut Colonel Jeremy Hansen and 3 American crewmates around the moon and back by ...