Apollo 17 became the last mission to launch humans on the moon. With two astronauts on board, the lunar module Challenger touched down in an area called the Taurus-Littrow valley, where they spent ...

of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the Earth." Neil Armstrong took that “one small step” and “one giant leap” on July 20, 1969 – nearly six years after JFK’s death.

For the second time this year, NASA has pushed back its timeline to land the first ... did not quite understand — until now. When reentering Earth’s atmosphere after returning from the Moon ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — A tech billionaire who bought a series of spaceflights from Elon Musk 's SpaceX and conducted the first private spacewalk was nominated by President-elect Donald Trump on ...