Astronaut Jim Lovell, who flew on two Apollo-era missions in 1968 and 1970, recorded a message for the Artemis II crew before his death in 2025.

On Wednesday, four astronauts blasted off from the Kennedy Space Center for a 10-day trip on the Artemis II mission to orbit the moon, further into space than a

Recently, yet another Apollo astronaut, Jim Lovell, passed on. Lovell’s fame was as defined by his role as a pop culture icon as it was by his astronaut heroics. Everybody who came of age during the Apollo race to the moon knows the name of Captain Jim ...

These photos are out of this world. Thousands of images from the Apollo missions have been curated and re-released in a new gallery on Flickr. The images hail directly from NASA but have been reorganized by Kipp Teague, who started the Apollo Archive ...

What began as a mission to land on the moon became history’s most harrowing space rescue after a technical failure forced the crew of Apollo 13 into a 200,000-mile race for survival.

The Apollo era remains one of the most remarkable achievements in the history of space exploration. Launched during the height of the Cold War, the program was driven by the United States’ ambition to outpace the Soviet Union after the launch of Sputnik 1.

Orion's interior space is equivalent to that of two minivans, NASA says. That's a lot more breathing room than space capsules of the 1960s and '70s.

In an X post, the space agency shared images captured by the 1972 Apollo 17 crew and the 2026 Artemis II astronauts.