As NASA prepares for the Artemis III landing at the Moon's south pole, two distinct research efforts using Apollo 17 materials have converged to reshape mission planning. Scientists have issued ...

Saturday, July 20, is Moon Day and the 55th anniversary of the first Apollo 11 moonwalk. Here’s a look at the Apollo program and the new Artemis program to return to the lunar surface. NASA will now ...

The Moon has always captured our attention and inspired our imaginations. From the first lunar landing in 1969 to the final ...

Andy Saunders, author of "Gemini and Mercury Remastered," talked about his process of remastering the most famous photographs of NASA's space program.

The following is an excerpt from The People’s Spaceship: NASA, the Shuttle Program, and Public Engagement after Apollo by Amy Paige Kaminski. The book will be published June 11, 2024, by the ...

Kenna Hughes-Castleberry is the Content Manager at Space.com. Formerly, she was the Science Communicator at JILA, a physics research institute. Kenna is also a freelance science journalist. Her beats ...

With today's inauguration, President Donald Trump is back in charge of the Artemis program. NASA's 21st-century moon program began during Trump's first term but has been plagued with developmental ...

On Dec. 21, 1968, NASA’s Apollo 8 mission launched to the moon. Apollo 8 was the second crewed mission in NASA’s Apollo program. It was also the first mission to bring humans to the moon. It lifted ...

On this date, Jan. 22, 1968, Apollo 5 launched in a major step forward for U.S. missions to the lunar surface. The Apollo 5 mission tested the Lunar Module in space for the first time, which was ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. The Apollo program began as part of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA's) ten-year plan from 1959, which planned for lunar ...