On February 26, 1966, NASA launched its new Saturn IB rocket on its first test flight. Also known as the Uprated Saturn I, ...

(NASA) – On Feb. 9, 1971, the nine-day Apollo 14 Moon landing mission came to a successful conclusion with the splashdown of astronauts Alan B. Shepard, Stuart A. Roosa, and Edgar D. Mitchell aboard ...

Once America's most experienced astronaut, Apollo 13's Jim Lovell, who died at 97, was the first to visit the moon twice.

Click to open image viewer. This Command Module Simulator was used at Kennedy Space Center to train the Apollo astronauts. It was used in conjunction with the Lunar Module Simulator. The simulated ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On March 3, 1969, Apollo 9 launched three astronauts on the first crewed test flight of NASA’s lunar module, which astronauts ...