I knew I was alone,” he observed later, “in a way that no earthling has ever been before.” That quote is immortalized on a ...

The Apollo spacecraft, developed by NASA for the legendary Moon missions, was made up of three key components: the Command ...

The Apollo spacecraft, designed by NASA for the iconic Apollo missions, played a pivotal role in one of humanity’s greatest ...

NASA is building its own successor to the command module as well, a lunar spacecraft called Orion, scheduled to be tested on its first round-the-moon journey no earlier than 2020.

The command module performed so well that NASA felt confident in making a bold move — sending Apollo 8 all the way around the moon in December. Apollo 9 was an Earth-orbit test of the lunar module.

The so-called "right stuff" manifests rather differently in "Apollo 13". Sure, this generation of astronauts knows the final ...

Now, half a century after the tragedy, NASA has placed on display the three hatches from the flame-damaged Apollo 1 command module, marking the first time any artifact from the capsule has been on ...

As North American began building the Command Service Module in early 1962, NASA began considering a new mission mode: Lunar Orbit Rendezvous. This mode kept the CSM and its heavy load of fuel for ...

On the evening of April 13, 50 years ago, NASA astronauts James Lovell Jr., John Swigert Jr. and Fred Haise Jr. were about to go to sleep for the night in the Apollo 13 command module.

NASA has released recordings of ‘outer-space type music’ heard by Apollo 10 astronauts while they orbited the far side of the Moon.

NASA’s trip to the Moon’s surface in July 1969 was preceded by a lot of preparatory missions — including Apollo 10, which involved a mock mission with everything but the actual landing.