Nearly 60 years ago, three Americans made history as the first humans to ever break free of Earth's orbit on their way toward the moon. And when they passed behind the moon to the side Earth never sees, Apollo 8 astronauts Frank Borman, Jim Lovell (who ...

The Apollo missions to the moon established many of the guidelines that we still use for space travel today, with some modern tweaks.

At this point in NASA's human spaceflight story, researchers have a substantial amount of material—documents, artifacts and images—with which to tell the stories of past flights to space. But with NASA's Artemis II mission around the moon now in the books,

For Toledo native Thomas Hughes, the splashdown brought back memories of his own role in space history. Hughes helped recover Apollo 16 as a young Navy sailor 54 years ago this month.

As the United States approaches the 250th anniversary of its independence, NASA said the Artemis II mission has carried a collection of historic mementos. Among them was a flag originally designated

After the war, he worked for RCA on the Apollo 11 Moon landing, contributing to the camera equipment used to broadcast footage from the lunar module.