On Dec. 21, 1968, NASA’s Apollo 8 mission launched to the moon. Apollo 8 was the second crewed mission in NASA’s Apollo ...

How the Apollo Program Manager Paved the Way for the Moon Landing Thinking back on the moonshot of Apollo 11, let's remember the NASA project manager who came on after the disastrous, fatal fire of ...

The last time a crew of Americans rode a rocket toward the Moon, the country was reeling from assassinations, riots, and a ...

The Apollo moon landings represent a milestone in human history, albeit one driven by the Cold War rivalry with the Soviet Union and the demonstration of American technological capability in a global ...

The Apollo program began with soaring ambitions — a lunar mission by the end of the 1960s. Then, tragedy struck. On January ...

The Apollo program saw a total of 11 spaceflights and the first humans walk on the moon. NASA started the program, which is also known as Project Apollo, in 1961 with the sole mission of getting ...

The Apollo program should be remembered as much for landing the first humans on the Moon as it is for countless demonstrations of problem solving and ingenuity, of continual fine-tuning and honing of ...