An overview of the history and accomplishments of NASA's Apollo missions. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The Apollo program was ...

On March 3, 1969, Apollo 9 launched three astronauts on the first crewed test flight of NASA’s lunar module, which astronauts later used to land on the moon. Astronauts James McDivitt, David Scott and ...

BRADENTON, Fla. (AP) — Fifty years after the Apollo 15 crew visited the moon, members of the family of astronaut Jim Irwin, the lunar module pilot who also drove the lunar rover, unveiled his NASA ...

Using the lunar module as a lifeboat and employing techniques never before considered, the astronauts’ ordeal ended triumphantly Alice George - Museums Correspondent On April 17, 1970, the parachutes ...

Michael Collins, the man who stayed behind aboard the Apollo 11 command module while crewmates Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin descended to the moon and walked into history, died Wednesday after a ...