From the day the Soviets put an astronaut into space in April 1961, the race was on with America to get a man on the moon.

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Despite Neil Armstrong's towering accomplishments, he remained a humble man. Armstrong, who is from Wapakoneta, Ohio, always ...

Almost forgotten now, the mission circled the Earth for 10 days, performing a series of tests with the lunar lander. What it lacked in glory it made up for in technological contributions. By Kenneth ...

On May 18, 1969, Apollo 10 launched on a mission to the moon. [‘On This Day in Space’ Video Series on Space.com] ( Apollo 10 was considered a "dress rehearsal" for a lunar landing. It did everything ...

For the first time in more than 50 years, humans are once again venturing to the Moon. Nasa’s Artemis program had sent four astronauts aboard the Orion spacecraft on a mission lasting nearly 10 ...

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The Orion spacecraft that’s taking the four Artemis II astronauts around the moon and back is the largest crewed capsule ever sent beyond low Earth orbit – with habitable space roughly equal to that ...

Apollo 13 was supposed to be NASA's third crewed mission to the surface of the moon, but nearly 56 hours into the flight, command module pilot John "Jack" Swigert radioed a troubling message to ...

As part of our 150th birthday, the Orlando Sentinel will reprint articles from our archives as part of our Monday Memory feature. Here’s one from 59 years ago this week about the death of the Apollo 1 ...