On Dec. 11, 1972, Apollo 17 became the last mission to launch humans on the moon. With two astronauts on board, the lunar module Challenger touched down in an area called the Taurus-Littrow valley, ...

On this day in 1969, NASA formally announced the prime crew selected to carry out the Apollo 11 mission, a decision that would soon mark one of the most defining moments in human history.

Russell “Rusty” Schweickart was among the first astronauts in space and the first to pilot the lunar module during the Apollo 9 mission in March 1969 that laid the foundation for humans to walk on the ...

After a fairly eventful mission to the Moon's surface, Charles Duke left several items on the Moon, and a message to whoever ...

Former Apollo 12 astronaut Alan Bean, who was the fourth man to walk on the moon and later turned to painting to chronicle the moon landings on canvas, has died. He was 86. Bean was the lunar module ...

The safe return of the Apollo 13 astronauts after their lunar landing mission encountered technical difficulties, 17th April 1970. From left to right, Lunar Module pilot Fred W. Haise, Mission ...

Apollo 7, crewed by Walter Schirra Jr., Donn Eisele, and Walter Cunningham, represented the first manned American spaceflight 21 months after the Apollo 1 fatal accident. Launching on October 11, 1968 ...