The 1972 Apollo 17 lunar module’s ascent from the Moon was captured by a camera mounted on a rover left behind on the lunar surface and controlled from Earth, although social media posts are using the ...

[Mike Stewart] powers up a thrust meter from an Apollo lunar module. This bit of kit passed inspection on September 25, 1969. Fortunately [Mike] was able to dig up some old documentation which ...

Apollo program is the first manned space flight program for the moon promoted by the United States. Computer historian Ken Siriff has released an image for obtaining the pre-modulation processor (PMP) ...

Shaving was something of a job on all the Apollo missions because in Zero-G, water doesn't just run off the face. Flickr/NASA Photo/ Project Apollo Archive The last human to walk on the moon was ...

On Dec. 11, 1972, Apollo 17 became the last mission to launch humans on the moon. [‘On This Day in Space’ Video Series on Space.com] With two astronauts on board, the lunar module Challenger touched ...

The Apollo Moon landings are among the most dissected events in history, yet some of their strangest details still hide in the fine print. I have pulled together 10 insane Apollo Moon landing facts ...

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.