Apollo 12, featuring astronauts Pete Conrad and Alan Bean, successfully executed a precision lunar landing in Oceanus Procellarum on November 19, 1969, five days post-launch. During their ...

As NASA prepared astronauts for its second mission into space, National Geographic had exclusive behind-the-scenes access for the intense and out-of-this-world training these pioneers underwent.

PHOENIX, Nov. 4, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Event Modules, powered by MobileOp4, successfully supported AMR Arizona's Event Medical Operations at the NASCAR Championship at Phoenix Raceway, delivering a ...

Kim Kardashian is endorsing a wild conspiracy theory. During Thursday’s episode of “The Kardashians” on Hulu, the 45-year-old reality star tried to convince her “All’s Fair” co-star Sarah Paulson that ...

The most common armor is the Whipple Shield, which was developed by astronomer Fred Whipple in the 1940s. Used on the Apollo Command Module and Lunar Module, the Whipple Shield consists of layers of ...

The Orion spacecraft being prepared for the Artemis 2 mission. Exploration programs would get a sharp funding increase in a House spending bill for fiscal year 2026. Credit: NASA/Rad Sinyak The recent ...

No element of response to fires and other incidents is more important to fire department leadership, incident commanders (ICs) and municipalities than the safety of their firefighters. Evidence of ...

SEATTLE — Retired Maj. Gen. William Anders, the former Apollo 8 astronaut who took the iconic “Earthrise” photo showing the planet as a shadowed blue marble from space in 1968, was killed Friday when ...

“Houston, we’ve had a problem,” were the words of Apollo 13 astronaut Jim Lovell when an explosion crippled the spacecraft and threatened the lives of the crew ...

WASHINGTON, Aug 8 (Reuters) - 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 ...

Astronaut Jim Lovell, best known as the commander of the near-tragic Apollo 13 mission to the moon, died Thursday in Illinois. He was 97. Lovell was a veteran of four spaceflights: Gemini VII, Gemini ...

James “Jim” Lovell, the former NASA astronaut renowned for his heroic leadership during the ill-fated Apollo 13 mission, has passed away at the age of 97. Lovell was the oldest living former astronaut ...