Humans first visited the Moon in 1969. The last time we went was 1972, over 50 years ago. Back then, astronauts in the Apollo program made their journeys in spacecraft that relied on remarkably basic ...

Modern smartphones contain millions of times more computing power than the technology that took NASA’s first astronauts to the moon 50 years ago this week. Phil Goldstein is a former web editor of the ...

Commanded by Alan Shepard, the only original Mercury astronaut to make it to the Moon on an Apollo mission, Apollo 14 was a reflight of Apollo 13’s abandoned lunar landing plan. Accompanied by Lunar ...

Click to open image viewer. This poster depicts an astronaut in the center of the triangular shape of the Apollo Command Module. He is surrounded by men and women performing the variety of jobs needed ...