Such "countdown demonstration tests" have traditionally taken place shortly before launch with the rocket and crew ship ...

During the Apollo era, NASA quietly developed emergency rescue missions in case astronauts became stranded in lunar orbit or ...

On Dec. 21, 1968, NASA’s Apollo 8 mission launched to the moon. Apollo 8 was the second crewed mission in NASA’s Apollo ...

World War II Navy veteran Ira “Ike” Schab, one of the dwindling number of survivors of the 1941 Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor, has died. He was 105. Daughter Kimberlee Heinrichs told The Associated ...

A major step toward launch day is complete as NASA's Artemis II astronauts ran through a countdown demonstration test.

Neil Armstrong is widely remembered as the commander of Apollo 11, the landmark NASA mission that carried humans to the Moon. On July 20, 1969, he made history as the first person to set foot on the ...