These NASA missions were not only a steppingstone to the Moon, but influenced many aspects of the way humans still travel ...

The NASA History Office brings you the new Spring 2025 issue of NASA History News & Notes reflecting on some of the ...

Landing safely on the surface of another planetary body, like the Moon or Mars, is one of the most important milestones of any given space mission. From the very beginning, NASA's Langley Research ...

Except for the Apollo lunar missions, Earth’s polar regions have remained out of view for astronauts, including those aboard the International Space Station (ISS). Even on Apollo, they did not ...

The astronauts aboard the Apollo 8 lunar mission became the first humans to directly view the far side of the moon during ...

Although already obsolete (it has only a 286 processor), it is faster and has more memory than the 70-pound computer on board the Apollo spacecraft that carried astronauts to the moon and back.

The plight of Gemini 8 seemed desperate enough while it ... when the perils of that wild ride were reviewed at a Houston press conference, Astronauts Neil Armstrong and David Scott seemed to ...

Apollo 11” and “To mark man’s conquest of space with time, through time, on time.” While it shares the same 42 mm case size ...