Even if Apollo was not America’s first space exploration program and, as it turned out, not even the most defining one from a scientific perspective, it is perhaps the most important to date as it’s ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Launch Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida has been opened to the public for tours. The NASA launch pad from which ...

Apollo 16 astronaut and moon walker Charlie Duke left a family photo on the lunar surface in 1972. It's long gone, but a digital copy is headed back in a data storage payload aboard Intuitive Machines ...

WASHINGTON — NASA will honor astronaut Thomas K. “Ken” Mattingly, II, with the presentation of an Ambassador of Exploration Award for his contributions to the U.S. space program. During a ceremony on ...

Legendary astronaut John Young -- who twice ventured into space in pioneering two-man Gemini capsules, orbited the moon and then walked on its cratered surface before commanding two space shuttle ...

The Space Shuttle was conceived as a way of cheaply ferrying crews and cargo to an Earth-orbiting space station. Shuttle and Station were meant to work together to carry out a well-defined mission, ...

In 1972, Apollo 16 astronaut and moon walker Charlie Duke left a family photo on the lunar surface. Today that photo is long gone. But Duke’s visage is heading back to the moon this week, in a novel ...