Villagomez was gifted the ball by Alan Shepard, the first American astronaut to fly into space, fifth human to walk on the ...

Apollo 14, the third U.S. mission to land on the moon, blasted off using a Saturn V rocket from Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

NASA recently paid tribute to the Challenger crew and other fallen astronauts during its annual Day of Remembrance.

The US space agency blamed technical issues in its Artemis programme for pushing back its planned return to the moon in 2026 until at least mid-2027. More than half a century after the last moon ...

Before we could blast off with the backpack ... it's also pushing boundaries in every aspect of your life." Related: NASA's Historic Apollo 11 Moon Landing in Pictures The "STEP INTO THE FUTURE ...

Following is the transcript of the video. Narrator: NASA has released photos, videos, and audio recordings of its Apollo missions. Audio clip: We copy you down, Eagle. Narrator: So there's little ...

Two private missions heading for the moon have blasted off on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. The lunar landers launched in the middle of the night from NASA's Kennedy Space Centre and are the latest to ...

Apollo 11's Neil Armstrong is captured in an image taken by fellow moonwalker, Buzz Aldrin, following flag planting on the moon in July 1969. | Credit: NASA Apollo 11's flag raising on the ancient ...

When the ride opened on Jan. 15, 1975, an Apollo moonwalker was its first passenger ... only astronauts had experienced up until then. "Blast off on a rip-roaring rocket into the furthest reaches ...

The $93.3 million mission comes as NASA plans to send humans back to the moon within this decade for the first time since the space agency's Apollo program ... had called off its own moon landing ...