Mars is the exciting next step in our exploration of space, but dust particles that were already a problem on the moon could ...

Apollo 16 launched to the moon! Apollo 16 was NASA's fifth lunar landing and the penultimate mission of the entire Apollo ...

The Apollo 13 mission will forever be remembered as a testament to human ingenuity and the will to survive. Three NASA ...

During the historic Apollo missions, astronauts left more than just footprints and flags on the Moon — they also left behind ...

Scientists have hypothesized since the 1960s that the sun is a source of ingredients that form water on the moon. When a ...

NASA wants to come up with a way to transform 96 sacks of feces, urine and vomit ditched by Apollo 11 astronauts in1969.

The creation of water on the lunar surface is possible, according to NASA, because the Moon lacks an atmosphere. Unlike the ...

(CBS) – On this day in history, April 16, 1972, the Apollo 16 blasted off from Cape Kennedy, Florida. Astronauts John Young and Charles Duke spent a record-breaking 71 hours on the moon. The ...

Splashdown occurred in the Pacific Ocean at 1:07 p.m. April 17, after a flight that lasted five days, 22 hours and 54 minutes. [...] ...

The patchwork blankets depict astronauts, rockets, capsules and bootprints, as well as — perhaps surprisingly — a few ...

At least one astronaut forgot to file until they had left for a moon ... on how astronauts pay taxes and what happened to that astronaut in 1970, who was on a mission called Apollo 13.

On April 11, 1970, the Apollo 13 spacecraft was launched from Cape Canaveral, Fla., on the third U.S. moon-landing mission.