Astronauts Jim Lovell, Jack Swigert and Fred Haise (played by Tom Hanks, Kevin Bacon and Bill Paxton, respectively) were ...
On Sept. 20, 1970, the Soviet Union's Luna 16 moon probe landed on the moon to retrieve a soil sample. Four days later, it ...
Read on for some of Howard’s behind-the-scenes secrets about the movie. He accidentally peed himself in front of Kevin Bacon.
American astronaut Jim Lovell, commander of the failed 1970 mission to the moon that nearly ended in disaster but became an inspirational saga of survival and the basis for the hit movie "Apollo 13," ...
Director Ron Howard's 1995 space rescue thriller lives on with a special anniversary edition for one week only starting Sept.
The Viking missions paved the way for future Mars missions and helped researchers understand the red planet’s climate and ...
From SpaceNews' Jeff Foust, a recap of the day's space industry news, including civil, commercial, and military space developments. The state of Texas has emerged as a de facto leader in this ...
WASHINGTON -- NASA released extremely detailed, high definition video showing the surface of the moon. The video comes from data gathered from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft. It recreates ...
NASA's Lunabotics Challenge is a competition open to US college students to create robots that can build berms out of regolith to provide blast protection, shade, and shielding for lunar landings and ...