Kitty Hawk descending under its three main parachutes. (NASA Image) (NASA) – On Feb. 9, 1971, the nine-day Apollo 14 Moon landing mission came to a successful conclusion with the splashdown of ...

The prime crew for the first manned flight of Project Apollo died in a flash fire inside the three-man spacecraft atop its Saturn booster at Complex 34 on Jan. 27, 1967.

This video examines the Apollo Lunar Module, the spacecraft that enabled astronauts to land on the moon's surface. It covers ...

Space has long been a matter of great curiosity and perplexity for humans. Astronauts ...

Artemis II is set to blast off to the moon in early February with four astronauts, including the Canadian Space Agency's ...

NASA's Artemis II is poised for the first lunar mission since 1972—with much more to come.

On February 5, 1971, two Apollo 14 astronauts landed on the moon! Apollo 14 commander Alan Shepard and the lunar module pilot ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Apollo 11 command module Columbia on temporary cradle. Photo by Eric Long, National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution The last time ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. The lithium hydroxide canister was ...

Three Apollo I astronauts Rogers Chaffee, Edward White and Gus Grissom die due to a flash fire at a grounded space capsule in Cape Canaveral, [...] ...

If flying to the Moon were like swimming the English Channel, no one in the 53 years since Apollo 17 splashed down in the ...