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. [...] ...

On April 16, 1972, Apollo 16 launched to the moon! Apollo 16 was NASA's fifth lunar landing and the penultimate mission of the entire Apollo program. [‘On This Day in Space’ Video Series on Space.com] ...

For the first time in more than 50 years, humans are once again venturing to the Moon. Nasa’s Artemis program had sent four ...

The mission’s goal was to land astronauts on the Moon’s Fra Mauro region and conduct scientific experiments, including ...

The historic computer software code that took Apollo 11 to the moon has been open-sourced and is available to anyone to read, ...

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 ...

On Christmas Day 1968 Michael Collins, who would later be the pilot of Apollo 11’s command module, Columbia, relayed a ...

The crew just surpassed the record previously set by the Apollo 13 astronauts in 1970 for the farthest distance ever traveled ...

The success of the recent Artemis moon mission has caused many Americans to feel uplifted and inspired. Uplifted because we could all imagine leaving Earth and its countless botherations — especially ...

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

It's all full of stars! Well, sort of ...

From the Mission Control Centre made famous by ‘Houston, we have a problem’ to the European spaceport, these destinations ...