On 1972, Apollo 16 launched to the moon! Apollo 16 was NASA's fifth lunar landing and the penultimate mission of the entire ...

Splashdown occurred in the Pacific Ocean at 1:07 p.m. April 17, after a flight that lasted five days, 22 hours and 54 minutes. [...] ...

The historic computer software code that took Apollo 11 to the moon has been open-sourced and is available to anyone to read, ...

The repository, posted by NASA's Chris Garry and designated as public domain, contains two distinct programs: Comanche055, ...

Fifty-six years ago Friday, a Biloxi man helped bring a spacecraft safely back to Earth, and his hometown wants to make sure ...

Students at St. Pius X Catholic School spoke with Apollo 13 astronaut Fred Haise during the school’s annual Space Week. Haise ...

For the first time in more than 50 years, humans are once again venturing to the Moon. Nasa’s Artemis program had sent four ...

This collection consists of one preliminary copy of the Apollo 15 Lunar Module LM-10 Flight Controller Systems Handbook, which consists mostly of tables and drawings. This preliminary copy was used in ...

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With the spacecraft crippled and more than 210,000 miles from Earth, flight directors and engineers in Houston, led by Eugene ...

Whilst alone on the far side of the Moon, Apollo 10 astronauts heard eerie noises that sounded sort of like music.

The Apollo missions to the moon established many of the guidelines that we still use for space travel today, with some modern ...