Astronauts placed six different American flags on the moon during the Apollo program. What became of those flags in the years since, and why were they controversial?

The so-called "right stuff" manifests rather differently in "Apollo 13". Sure, this generation of astronauts knows the final ...

Tiny, orange glass beads discovered on the moon during the Apollo era may reveal an untold history of lunar volcanism.

On the afternoon of December 21, 1968, three astronauts — Frank Borman, Bill Anders, and Jim Lovell — strapped themselves to a Saturn V rocket and blasted into space. The mission was Apollo 8 ...

Kluger, who has written about the Apollo Program, talks about his new book: 'Gemini: Stepping Stone to the Moon, The Untold ...

Apollo 16 astronaut and moon walker Charlie Duke, left, speaks with former NASA astronauts José Hernández, center, and Christopher Cassidy during a ceremony at Kennedy Space Center Visitor ...

Apollo 11 astronauts watched the Earth rise above the moon’s horizon on July 20, 1969. NASA / JSC. A camera was rolling as Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin climbed down from the Eagle lunar lander ...

December 7, 1972 was the launch of the final mission in NASA's Apollo moon program. Fifty years later, NASA finally seems poised to return people to the lunar surface.

The Apollo 11 astronauts' star is flanked by those of some of Hollywoods most legendary performers. (NASA) The astronauts were again honored on July 20, 1999, when the "stars" were rededicated to ...

If all goes well, NASA expects to fly astronauts on a trip around the moon in 2024. And soon after, the agency intends to take astronauts to the surface in a lunar lander being built by Elon Musk ...