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The former head of the International Space Station looks forward to European astronauts heading to the Moon. View on euronews ...

NASA's Artemis II mission to the Moon in February marks the next step toward Mars ...

We are 120 feet apart and sitting. The voice was almost unbelievably calm. But behind every word was an unmistakable note of triumph. From 185 miles above the earth, Air Force Major Thomas Stafford ...

For the first time in 25 years of continuous occupation, Nasa will be partially evacuating the International Space Station (ISS) due to a crew medical incident. The agency announced on Wednesday that ...

On Jan. 22, 1968, NASA launched Apollo 5, marking the first time the Apollo Lunar Module flew in space and a critical step toward landing astronauts on the Moon.

[Mike Stewart] powers up a thrust meter from an Apollo lunar module. This bit of kit passed inspection on September 25, 1969. Fortunately [Mike] was able to dig up some old documentation which ...

NASA’s Artemis II will send astronauts around the Moon for the first time since Apollo, testing deep-space systems and ...

AMONG the thousands of groundlings who worked to make Apollo 8 a success, the person most responsible for the flight was a Vienna-born engineer named George Low, who is little known outside the NASA ...