Today, we recall the speech John F. Kennedy made 50 years ago as the beginning of a glorious and inexorable process in which the nation united behind the goal of a manned lunar landing even as the ...

On Dec. 21, 1968, NASA’s Apollo 8 mission launched to the moon. Apollo 8 was the second crewed mission in NASA’s Apollo ...

The Apollo program saw a total of 11 spaceflights and the first humans walk on the moon. NASA started the program, which is also known as Project Apollo, in 1961 with the sole mission of getting ...

The Apollo moon landings represent a milestone in human history, albeit one driven by the Cold War rivalry with the Soviet Union and the demonstration of American technological capability in a global ...

Apollo lunar mission. Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin become the first humans to walk on the moon. Michael Collins stays in lunar orbit. Apollo lunar mission. An in-flight explosion thwarts landing, ...

That's one small step for a man. One very expensive leap for the United States. Okay, sure, some would argue focusing on the total cost of the Apollo program defeats the purpose. Stepping onto the ...

The Apollo program should be remembered as much for landing the first humans on the Moon as it is for countless demonstrations of problem solving and ingenuity, of continual fine-tuning and honing of ...

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