Splashdown occurred in the Pacific Ocean at 1:07 p.m. April 17, after a flight that lasted five days, 22 hours and 54 minutes ...

For the first time in more than 50 years, humans are once again venturing to the Moon. Nasa’s Artemis program had sent four ...

On April 17, 1970, Apollo 13 returned to Earth after narrowly avoiding a deadly disaster in space. [‘On This Day in Space’ ...

With the spacecraft crippled and more than 210,000 miles from Earth, flight directors and engineers in Houston, led by Eugene ...

Fifty-six years ago Friday, a Biloxi man helped bring a spacecraft safely back to Earth, and his hometown wants to make sure ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Apollo 13 mission was to land on the moon for a third, but it soon turned into a rescue mission. An oxygen tank exploded ...

What began as a mission to land on the moon became history’s most harrowing space rescue after a technical failure forced the ...