The capsule, Columbia, is set to leave the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum for the first time in 46 years for a traveling exhibition called, “Destination Moon: The Apollo 11 ...

Apollo 13 hit the water four miles from the Iwo Jima. Within minutes, helicopters were over the bobbing spacecraft, which stayed rightside up.

Seven months after the Columbia debacle the agency is giving serious consideration to bringing back a new version of the Apollo capsule, the expendable spacecraft that served the U.S. space ...

The gumdrop-shape spacecraft and the more than 20 related artifacts that accompanied it on the "Destination Moon: The Apollo 11 Mission" tour finished its fifth and final run on Monday (Feb. 17 ...

The Apollo 13 spacecraft as seen seen in a still image from an Analytical Graphics Inc. simulation on what could have happened if the spacecraft did not safely return to Earth in April 1970.

The Apollo spacecraft used a staged approach—removing parts of the transportation along the way to reduce weight. ... The ...

No crew ever flew in a Block 1 spacecraft, but on 11 October 1968, the first manned mission, Apollo 7, blasted off into orbit for a test of the new Block 2 command and service module.

Apollo 11 astronauts return to launchpad 50 ... 2019, 9:25 a.m. This March 30, 1969 photo made available by NASA shows the crew of the Apollo 11, from left ... The others secured the capsule, ...

Greg Force was just a boy when his father, the director of a NASA tracking station in Guam, called home with an important mission for him: to help the crew of Apollo 11 return safely to Earth.

A Soviet spacecraft, Luna 15, had beat them to orbit days before, circumnavigating the moon in a final Cold War showdown race to land on another celestial body and return home.