Neil Armstrong was the first man on the moon, but you probably knew that already.

More than five decades ago, Apollo 14 carried an unusual payload into deep space when hundreds of tree seeds accompanied the mission on its journey around the Moon. While astronauts Alan Shepard and ...

Long before laptops or calculators were anywhere near NASA's offices, there was a woman doing the math by hand who decided ...

NASA's Artemis program is officially paving humanity's modern road back to the Moon. While earlier missions in the program focused on building 'operational heritage' for the Space Launch System (SLS) ...

A Santa Monica native and retired Marine colonel will take the helm of one of the most ambitious American space missions since the Apollo era. NASA announced Tuesday that Randy Bresnik has been named ...

NASA’s newly announced Artemis III crew is preparing for one of the most complex space missions ever attempted on the road back to the Moon.

Italian astronaut Luca Parmitano will serve as pilot on Artemis III, marking a milestone for Europe’s participation in the program which will bring once again a human on the Moon. NASA has announced ...

NASA has selected the Artemis III crew for a high-stakes 2027 mission designed to test the future of lunar exploration. Astronauts will launch aboard Orion and perform unprecedented docking operations ...

For decades, part of the work of NASA's History Office has included documenting the experiences of the agency’s experts through oral history interviews. These interviews allow deeper understanding of ...

Born in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia, in 1918, Johnson’s intense curiosity and brilliance with numbers vaulted her ahead several grades in school. When asked to name her greatest contribution ...

Here, Conrad examines the Surveyor's TV camera prior to detaching it. Astronaut Richard F. Gordon Jr. remained with the Apollo 12 Command and Service Modules (CSM) in lunar orbit while Conrad and Bean ...