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 ...

Fifty years ago, the last human set foot on the Moon. The Apollo 17 mission brought back a wealth of lunar samples, but some were left untouched until now. The UK’s National History Museum researchers ...

The photos, taken decades apart in 1968 and 2026, show Earth as it would be seen if you were standing on the moon. Take a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NASA's Space Launch System rocket with the Orion spacecraft set for the Artemis 2 mission is seen on Launch Complex 39B at sunrise ...

The Orion spacecraft that’s taking the four Artemis II astronauts around the moon and back is the largest crewed capsule ever sent beyond low Earth orbit – with habitable space roughly equal to that ...

As the United States approaches the 250th anniversary of its independence, NASA said the Artemis II mission has carried a ...

The U.S. Navy doesn’t have a nuclear-powered carrier available, but the USS John P Murtha is well-suited to the recovery mission of the Orion space capsule ...

On Wednesday, four astronauts are scheduled to launch on a trip around the moon — the first such mission in more than 50 years. Images show NASA's long road to this point. For the first time in more ...