Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On Dec. 21, 1968, NASA’s Apollo 8 mission launched to the moon. Apollo 8 was the second crewed mission in NASA’s Apollo program.

The Apollo missions to the moon established many of the guidelines that we still use for space travel today, with some modern tweaks.

Decades ago, there was an Apollo Generation of children who came of age during the era of the lunar landing. NASA hopes to ...

The Apollo program stands as one of humanity's most daring and awe-inspiring ventures into the unknown. Led by NASA in the 1960s and 70s, it was a bold response to the space race. From the fiery ...

From Mercury & Apollo Missions to the Space Shuttle Program, Mars Rover Landings, & Artemis II. NASA officials held a news conference at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida to highlight progress on ...

What began as a mission to land on the moon became history’s most harrowing space rescue after a technical failure forced the crew of Apollo 13 into a 200,000-mile race for survival.

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla – Before the rockets. Before the moon landings. There were the names. NASA’s most famous lunar program, Apollo, was named after the Greek god of the sun — a symbol of light, ...

On April 16, 1972, Apollo 16 launched to the moon! Apollo 16 was NASA's fifth lunar landing and the penultimate mission of ...

Sam Dove is one of the people in charge of getting NASA’s Artemis rocket to the launch pad running the workhorse ...

But Kennedy sold the space program instrumentally as well, in a more familiar politician’s register. Sometimes he used the strategic language of the Cold War, promising to achieve “a position of ...

The Apollo 13 mission was to land on the moon for a third, but it soon turned into a rescue mission. An oxygen tank exploded aboard the spacecraft, causing both the crew on board and ground control to ...