Richard “Dick” F. Gordon Jr. was born in Seattle on Oct. 5, 1929. He graduated from UW with a bachelor’s degree in chemistry ...

The Artemis II mission is a test flight that will send four astronauts on a more than 600,000-mile, 10-day journey around the ...

NASA always prepared for tragedy. A speech was written if Apollo 11 astronauts died on the Moon, and rescue plans existed for the doomed Columbia crew. The darkest contingencies of the space program.

The question is simple: why haven’t humans returned to the Moon since Apollo 17 in 1972? The main reason is money. After the ...

This past weekend, the Artemis II rocket was rolled out to Launch Pad 39B at Kennedy Space Center. It is to take humans to ...

When Neil Armstrong Aldrin reflected on Apollo 11, they were looking backward at a moment that reshaped history.

As the oldest astronaut Buzz Aldrin turns 96, the astronauts of Artemis II wish him happy birthday and talk about their ...

The Artemis II mission will set several notable human spaceflight records. Astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina ...

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Just moving out the moon-bound rocket to the launch pad was an incredible engineering feat. Watch how NASA got it done.

NASA’s giant new moon rocket moved to the launch pad Saturday in preparation for astronauts’ first lunar fly-around in more ...