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. [...] ...

White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico played a crucial role in the US space program, from early rocket tests to the moon ...

Here’s a fun fact that’ll make your brain do a little flip: the world’s largest space museum isn’t in Houston, Washington D.C ...

Follow the Artemis mission to bring humanity back to the Moon for the first time since Apollo. A half-century after Apollo, the Artemis missions aim to bring astronauts back to the Moon and establish ...

U.S. and allied governments and contractors gamed out implications of a nuclear blast intended to take out satellites.

RR Auction’s April 23 sale features Gene Cernan’s thrice‑flown 1953 $2 note—the only paper money carried in Earth and lunar ...

The U.S. Navy selected Cmdr. Logan Peck to be the new flight leader of the Blue Angels for the 2027-2028 show seasons.

COLORADO SPRINGS—U.S. Space Command (Spacecom) is beginning to craft a strategy focused on space-based maneuvering as adversaries increasingly demonstrate new refueling and logistics activities, ...

Humanity first reached the moon in 1969. We went back a few times, then lost interest within three short years, and we ...

With the spacecraft crippled and more than 210,000 miles from Earth, flight directors and engineers in Houston, led by Eugene ...

At this point in NASA's human spaceflight story, researchers have a substantial amount of material—documents, artifacts and ...

When Reid Wiseman ‘97 strapped into the Orion spacecraft in April for humanity's first lunar voyage in more than half a ...