On Jan. 22, 1968, NASA launched Apollo 5, marking the first time the Apollo Lunar Module flew in space and a critical step toward landing astronauts on the Moon.

Richard “Dick” F. Gordon Jr. was born in Seattle on Oct. 5, 1929. He graduated from UW with a bachelor’s degree in chemistry in 1951. By graduation, Gordon had not yet set his sights on being one out ...

If everything goes to plan, NASA’s giant Space Launch System rocket will launch in early February with four astronauts ...

Buzz Aldrin, the second man and only one of 12 to ever walk on the moon, turns 96 today. He's just one of four living ...

When Neil Armstrong Aldrin reflected on Apollo 11, they were looking backward at a moment that reshaped history.

The Artemis II mission is scheduled to begin as soon as next month with the Cosmosphere already planning a watch party for ...

Hundreds of NASA employees and contractors are working the three-day holiday weekend in an effort to attempt something that hasn’t happened since December 1972: sending astronauts to the moon.

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. — The U.S. Space and Rocket Center has completed the annual cleaning of the Apollo 16 Command module. The ...

Though Artemis II will not be landing on the lunar surface – Nasa aims to put boots on the ground by 2030, though China is ...

ISS research over 25 years shows how humans adapt biologically, medically, and technologically to space, informing future missions and scientific understanding of life beyond Earth.

While Alan Shepard played one of the worst rounds of Moon golf on record, an experiment was circling the Moon 34 times on ...

On this day in 1969, NASA formally announced the prime crew selected to carry out the Apollo 11 mission, a decision that would soon mark one of the most defining moments in human history.