The three-man crew of Apollo 8 - Commander Frank Borman, Command Module Pilot James Lovell, and Lunar Module Pilot William Anders - was the first to leave Earth on a Saturn V rocket. They departed ...

The United States began to abandon the technology of manned lunar exploration by late 1967, nearly a year before the first Apollo astronauts reached space on board an Apollo spacecraft (Apollo 7, ...

America's first astronaut-ready spacecraft in eight years is currently being put through its paces in an unmanned test flight to the ISS, but 50 years ago, another spacecraft was undergoing an even ...

Fifty years ago and a quarter of a million miles away, three astronauts carried out the dress rehearsal for one of the greatest events in human history. On May 18, 1969, Apollo 10 lifted off from ...