Jim Lovell, an astronaut best known as the commander of the ill-fated Apollo 13, has died. He was 97. NASA announced his death Friday and included this statement from his family: “We are enormously ...

On February 26, 1966, NASA reached a pivotal milestone in America’s race to the Moon with the first launch of an Apollo-Saturn IB rocket, known as AS-201, from Cape Kennedy—today’s Cape Canaveral.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Famed Apollo astronaut Jim Lovell passed away on August 7 in Lake Forest, Illinois, at the age of 97. Jim Lovell was a key figure ...

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 ...

Those were the now-famous words of NASA Capt. James A. "Jim" Lovell Jr., one of America's most decorated astronauts and the mission commander for the ill-fated 1970 Apollo 13. Lovell rephrased a ...

NASA's last Apollo command module to launch into space has shed its skin to provide a better look at the capsule, which was the first United States spacecraft to fly a joint mission with Russia. The ...

In their recent announcement, NASA has made official what pretty much anyone following the Artemis lunar program could have ...

CAPE KENNEDY, Fla. (WHNT) — 56 years ago today, the Apollo 10 “dress rehearsal” mission launched into space to set up the Apollo 11 moon landing mission a month later. Apollo 10 launched from Cape ...

Old Apollo rocks are providing a fresh take on the moon's magnetic field. The lunar magnetic field is currently weak or even ...

NASA will update the public on Artemis II's progress, its first crewed Moon mission since Apollo, at a live briefing Thursday ...