Sotheby’s Space Exploration auction features the life-saving instrument, a Snoopy pin, space-flown flags, and more.

Apollo 13 odyssey transfixed the nation, tested NASA's mettle. After mission was aborted by explosion, Houston engineers guided crew home ...

People across the Rocket City are celebrating its out-of-this-world history during the week-long Space Fest.

This two-minute video montage shows highlights of the Apollo 11 moonwalk on July 20, 1969. (NASA Johnson video) July 1969. It ...

Watch archive footge of how space suits were tested in a NASA room for the Apollo 11 mission.

Introduction -- Part I. Humble Beginnings -- 1. School of Hard Knocks -- 2. Developing the State-of-the-Art Space Suit -- 3. The Turbulent Years, 1962-1965 -- 4. Second Chances: The Model AX-5L and ...

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 ...

Fred Haise (Bill Paxton), Jack Swigert (Kevin Bacon) and Jim Lovell (Tom Hanks) look out a window on Apollo 13. Image via Universal Pictures There is arguably no greater range of genre than the space ...

In 1972, Apollo 16 astronaut and moon walker Charlie Duke left a family photo on the lunar surface. Today that photo is long gone. But Duke’s visage is heading back to the moon this week, in a novel ...

Recently, yet another Apollo astronaut, Jim Lovell, passed on. Lovell’s fame was as defined by his role as a pop culture icon as it was by his astronaut heroics. Everybody who came of age during the ...