NASA and USGS are mapping critical minerals in the American West using airborne sensors to help reduce U.S. reliance on ...

NASA astronauts Buzz Aldrin, Neil Armstrong and Michael Collins blasted off on their famous mission to land and walk on the ...

Launched on July 16, 1969, the mission included Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins. On July 20, 1969, Armstrong and Aldrin landed the Lunar Module Eagle in the Sea of Tranquility‚ with ...

Apollo 11, the first US lunar landing mission, is launched at 9:32 a.m. Easter Daylight Time. The Cosmosphere in Hutchinson, Kansas, houses artifacts from the Apollo program.

In 1945, the first test of the atom bomb was conducted at a base near Alamogordo, N.M. Because the test was top secret, ...