The Science Museum in London is closing its almost 40-year-old 'Exploring Space' gallery to establish a new 'Space' gallery ...

Seattle's Museum of Flight brings its collection of space artifacts up to the present day with a Blue Origin BE-3U rocket ...

NASA - Saturn V Apollo Shake Test To shake the 25-story rocket, workers at the base of the Saturn V rocket would push at the ...

The documentary tells the story of Gus Grissom, Ed White and Roger Chaffee, who died after a fire erupted in their spacecraft on the launch pad.

The six-legged robotic spacecraft that's traveled more than 1 million kilometers (or more than 621,000 miles) since launching a day after Valentine's Day could potentially become the first American ...

Fifty years ago today, the massive Saturn V rocket for the Apollo 11 mission that would fulfill President Kennedy’s goal of “landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to Earth ...

Apollo 16 astronaut Charlie Duke took this photo ... For this trip, which began with last Wednesday’s launch of the rocket toting the Athena lander, the data storage device will have information ...

After the end of the space shuttle program, NASA turned to private companies to fill the gap. That isn't working out for the ...

There were many advancements to make. The engineers had to design a rocket with enough power to send the Apollo spacecraft to the moon. The details of the lunar flight plan had to be worked out.

Pic: AP Several of NASA's legacy contractors like Boeing and Northrop Gruman, which built the space shuttle and Apollo-era rockets, are big employers in certain congressional districts.

After liftoff, the rocket safely separated 48 minutes later, and the lander was on its own to begin its journey to the moon. Potential landing for the spacecraft is today, Thursday, Feb. 22.