Destination Moon' follows a real-life astronaut mission that ended tragically — and the lessons learned for future Apollo ...

Houston, we have a new reason to celebrate 1995's "Apollo 13" movie. The "Apollo 13" movie astronaut crew included Hanks (as Lovell), Kevin Bacon (command module pilot Jack Swigert) and Bill Paxton ...

Apollo 11 fulfilled JFK’s promise to land a man on the Moon and return him safely—but the White House quietly prepared for ...

"Fate has ordained that the men who went to the moon to explore in peace will stay on the moon to rest in peace." So begins President Richard Nixon's televised address to the nation 51 years ago, ...

Apollo 13 came close to tragedy in 1970, but a new documentary finds hope for our planet in the failed Moon mission. Reading time 4 minutes It’s been more than 60 years since Yuri Gagarin became the ...

Fifty years ago today, three American astronauts died in a sudden, uncontrollable cabin fire aboard the Apollo I space capsule. The deaths of Virgil "Gus" Grissom, Ed White, and Roger Chaffee could ...

Tate Taylor is set to direct an imaginative alternate history of the 1969 Apollo 11 space mission, titled In the Event of a Moon Disaster. The film gets its name and concept from a speech President ...

Apollo 13 was meant to land on the Moon, but an explosion turned it into a desperate fight for survival. This is the story of ...

James is a published author with multiple pop-history and science books to his name. He specializes in history, space, strange science, and anything out of the ordinary.View full profile James is a ...

The Apollo disaster in January plunged the U.S. space program into an agonizing interregnum of introspection and doubt. Last week the nation’s space leaders made it plain that the time has come to ...

Having endured a nationwide public scolding since last January’s Apollo disaster, North American Aviation Inc. last week did some private scolding within its own corporate offices. Chief victim was ...