Jim Lovell (Tom Hanks), Fred Haise (Bill Paxton), and Jack Swigert (Kevin Bacon) experience the raw, earth-shaking power of ...

But it was a magnificent ship too—none more so than the Apollo that got the numeral 11. That, of course, is the one that ...

In this video, we focus on the Saturn V rocket, which launched the Apollo spacecraft into orbit. Notably, there were 13 successful launches of the Saturn V. The journey to the moon is discussed, ...

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

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 ...

While the crew of Apollo 9 was still orbiting Earth on this day in 1969, preparations were already underway on the ground for the next critical step in the race to the Moon.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On Dec. 21, 1968, NASA’s Apollo 8 mission launched to the moon. Apollo 8 was the second crewed mission in NASA’s Apollo program.

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 ...

This Smithsonian Snapshot marks the May 18, 1969, launch of the Apollo 10 mission. The Apollo 10 spacecraft launched from Cape Kennedy at 12:49 p.m. EST with commander Thomas Stafford, command module ...

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 ...

NASA's Crawler-Transporter 2 will soon move the Artemis II rocket and Orion spacecraft from the Vehicle Assembly Building to ...