As NASA prepared astronauts for its second mission into space, National Geographic had exclusive behind-the-scenes access for the intense and out-of-this-world training these pioneers underwent.

The recent safe return of NASA astronauts Sunita Williams and Barry Wilmore after a nine-month stay onboard the International Space Station (ISS) underscored the importance of following safety ...

Fifty years on, the Apollo Moon programme is probably still humankind's single greatest technological achievement. On 16 July 1969, astronauts Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins were ...

The success of the Apollo 11 mission to the Moon, and the safety of the astronauts, relied on engineering, ingenuity and technology. Astronaut Alan Shepard ahead of the first American human ...

In a year when we’ll celebrate Apollo 11’s 50th anniversary, it’s worth remembering the pathfinders who completed the same mission with one critical order: don’t actually land on the moon. The command ...

In the fourth piece of our series on legendary aerospace artists, we pay tribute to an illustrator who’s responsible for creating some of the most inspiring cutaway illustrations of all time—yet we ...

North American Aviation (NAA) was the prime contractor for the Apollo Command and Service Module (CSM). In December 1965, the company's engineers briefed NASA's Office of Manned Space Flight (OMSF) ...

In June 1962, a little more than a year after President John F. Kennedy put the U.S. on course for the moon, NASA's piloted spaceflight organizations agreed that Lunar Orbit Rendezvous (LOR) should be ...

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 ...