The astronauts of Apollo 8 were the first men to see the far side of the moon with their own eyes, without the aid of optical devices. From their orbital altitude of 69 statute miles, Frank Borman ...

The broadcasts from Apollo 8 invited huge television audiences onboard the spacecraft. The astronauts showed how things worked in the capsule and performed a memorable Christmas Eve reading.

No one has been back to the moon for over 50 years, but the reasons why are multifaceted and not obvious at first glance.

Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost lander has beamed home a spectacular image of sunrise as seen from the Moon just days after ...

LISTER, mounted below Blue Ghost’s lower deck, measures the flow of heat from the moon's interior with a sophisticated ...

Reporting on missions to the moon and beyond. NASA is aiming to send astronauts back to the moon, because that is what President Trump set as the destination of the agency’s human spaceflight ...

The Apollo moon program resulted in a legacy of thousands of images - all of them of immense value as both scientific and documentary records. Yet 30 years after the event most of them speak only ...

For its annual “Man of the Year” cover on January 3, 1969, Time magazine made the rare choice to honor not just one individual but three: NASA astronauts Frank Borman, James Lovell, and ...

A virtual army of 400,000 people worked to make John F. Kennedy’s challenge to land a man on the moon in 1969 a reality. They flocked to the Apollo program for many reasons. Some relished the ...