It was July 20, 1969 when Neil Armstrong became the first human to step foot on an extraterrestrial body—our Moon. Today is the 49th anniversary of that momentous event and we celebrate it in ...

Is there anything more tragic than a spacecraft that never makes it to space? A vehicle with every intention of bringing men to worlds beyond but is instead stuck here on Earth, with only us lame ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I am Founder and Executive Chair of Humatics and a professor at MIT. “We’re smoking right down there…” cooed astronaut Pete Conrad ...

There are two well-known crazy rich guys building rockets right now, and while Elon Musk and SpaceX tend to get most of the attention—mostly because they are actually doing real things in space—Jeff ...

On this date 50 years ago, the jinxed Apollo 13 mission splashed down in the Pacific Ocean. The spacecraft’s lunar module never landed on the moon as intended, but considering everything that went ...

President John F. Kennedy's vision was put into motion, stretching America toward the goal of landing man on the moon during the 1960s. A group of daring, talented men was specially chosen for the ...

Nobody ever accused the Apollo program of failing to deliver the goods. There were the 842 pounds of moon rocks and the raft of scientific spinoffs and the deep thrills that every one of the 11 ...