One of the most colorful crews of the Apollo program, Pete Conrad, Alan Bean and Dick Gordon made up the crew of Apollo 12. This was the second mission to land on the moon only 4 months after Apollo ...

The overcast sky above Kennedy Space Center on November 14, 1969, seemed more of a nuisance than a threat. No clouds were going to stop NASA from launching Apollo 12 on the second manned mission to ...

On Christmas Eve 1968, Apollo 8 crewmembers Frank Borman, Jim Lovell, and Bill Anders made a live broadcast from orbit around the Moon.

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

The first manned mission to the moon returned to earth on December 27, 1968. Apollo 8's crew did not walk on the moon's ...

Former Apollo astronaut James Lovell, who personified the spirt of NASA’s calm confidence that despair would never have dominion, has died at the age of 97. As noted by the New York Times, Lovell ...