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

The first joint space mission between the United States and Russia (then the Soviet Union) docked in Earth orbit half a ...

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

We’re headed back to July 16, 1969. Some may remember that’s the day Apollo 11 launched from Cape Kennedy, or the former name of Cape Canaveral, Florida.

Neil Armstrong, the first man on the moon, was a private person. Therefore, when he spoke, it commanded attention. Here he ...

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

“I estimate pretty close to a thousand,” said Lauren Gomez, a staff member at the Manatee Viewing Center in Apollo Beach. The Big Bend Power Station takes in water to cool their machinery.

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.