NASA's deputy associate director, Werhner von Braun, examines the color television camera planned for inclusion in the Apollo 15 lunar landing mission. The camera will be attached to the Lunar Roving ...

Early Apollo Missions: Earth Orbit Apollo missions flew unmanned until October 11, 1968, when Wally Schirra, Donn Eisele and ...

In August of 1971, Apollo 15 set out on what would become one of NASA's most ambitious and scientifically valuable lunar missions. Astronauts David Scott, James Irwin, and Alfred Worden brought a new ...

NASA's Apollo moonshots are a tough act to follow, even after all this time. As four astronauts get set to blast off on humanity's first trip to the moon in more than half a century, comparisons ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The people who toiled night and day to put astronauts on the moon during Apollo are thrilled that NASA is finally going back. They just wish these Artemis moonshots had ...

Apollo 15 looked like another major NASA success until questions surfaced about what the crew had quietly carried aboard the mission. The controversy centered on hundreds of unauthorized postal covers ...

Standing on the Moon during Apollo 15, astronaut David Scott recreated an experiment connected to an idea Galileo had argued ...

On October 11th, 1968, just 15 months from President Kennedy’s deadline for a moon landing, NASA launched its first Apollo crew into space. Apollo 7’s Wally Schirra, Donn Eisele, and Walter Cunningham ...