Moon rocks have also made brief visits at the White House. During Trump's first term in office, a different Apollo 17 rock ...

A Nasa-backed company is teaming up with SpaceX founder and billionaire Elon Musk to develop an ’extreme’ space vehicle that ...

The moon rock signifying NASA's lunar ambitions had adorned Joe Biden's Oval Office throughout his entire presidential ...

Apollo 17 (1972) broke the mold a bit. Gene Cernan commanded the mission and Harrison “Jack” Schmidt, a geologist and the only scientist to fly on Apollo, was the lunar module pilot.

Apollo 14, the third U.S. mission to land on the moon, blasted off using a Saturn V rocket from Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

Furthermore, the Apollo 17 flag planted in December 1972, the program's last moon mission, was uniquely noteworthy; that flag had been displayed in the Mission Operations Control Room during the ...

The space program amassed an army of 400,000 employees ... The final Moon landing during Apollo 17 lasted 75 hours. Two weeks on the Moon with this equipment sounds like a nightmare.

Astronaut Memorial Ceremony took place Sunday to honor the 17 NASA crew members lost in the Apollo 1, Challenger and Columbia tragedies.

The University’s highest governing board named the Thomas J. Watson Jr. School of International and Public Affairs, approved a 4.85% increase in undergraduate tuition and fees, and a 3.5% salary pool ...