On Jan. 22, 1968, NASA launched Apollo 5, marking the first time the Apollo Lunar Module flew in space and a critical step toward landing astronauts on the Moon. BREVARD COUNTY, FLORIDA – On Jan. 22, ...

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Dec. 11 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1816, Indiana joined the United States as its 19th state. In 1936, Britain's King Edward VIII abdicated to marry American divorcee Wallis Warfield Simpson.

For decades—yes, literally decades—it has been easy to dismiss Blue Origin as a company brimming with potential but rarely producing much of consequence. But last week the company took a tremendous ...

SpaceX Starship lifts off from Starbase in Boca Chica, Texas, for its sixth flight test on Nov. 19, 2024. Credit - AFP—Getty Social media posts are not rocket fuel, but if they were, Elon Musk would ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — A collection of 36 fragmented Bibles that went into space during the Apollo 14 mission, which were found in a Knoxville church, is now up for auction. The Bibles are up for auction ...

NASA’s Artemis II SLS (Space Launch System) rocket is getting ready to send four astronauts from Earth on a journey around the Moon in 2026. Engineers have upgraded the agency’s Moon SLS rocket inside ...

When things went wrong on the unmanned Apollo 5 mission in January 1968, Paul J. Morgante Sr. was in NASA’s Manned Space Flight Center in Houston, Texas. As project engineer at Bell Aerospace for the ...

More than 55 years ago, three Apollo 13 astronauts en route to the moon had to abandon plans to reach the lunar surface when their spacecraft encountered troubles. The astronauts' perilous journey ...