Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Cape Canaveral’s Launch Complex 34 sits as a preserved and haunting reminder of NASA’s first major tragedy — one which lives on in the agency’s culture as it prepares to send the ...

— -- It's been forty years since Neil Armstrong "giant leap" onto the surface of the moon. Celebrate the anniversary with this look back at the Apollo program, from the tragedy of the Apollo 1 disaster to the thrill of lunar exploration 24/7 coverage ...

From Mercury & Apollo Missions to the Space Shuttle Program, Mars Rover Landings, & Artemis II. In 1957, the beeps from Sputnik, a small Russian satellite, sent the Cold War between the Soviet Union and United States… On May 5, 1961, Alan Shepard became ...

"On July 20, 1969, U.S. astronaut Neil Armstrong took 'one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.' The success of the Apollo 11 mission satisfied the goal that had been set by President John F. Kennedy just over eight years earlier - 'before ...

Jim Lovell, an astronaut best known as the commander of the ill-fated Apollo 13, has died. He was 97. NASA announced his death Friday and included this statement from his family: “We are enormously proud of his amazing life and career accomplishments ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Andy Saunders, author of "Gemini and Mercury Remastered," talked about his process of remastering the most famous photographs of NASA's space program. This lesson explores the Gemini, Mercury, and Apollo ...