Leading up to the historic 1969 Apollo 11 mission, ABC News built a mock Apollo command module to give viewers an inside look at how astronauts would travel to the lunar surface. See more of the ...

Description: The two prime crews of the joint U.S.-USSR Apollo Soyuz Test Project (ASTP) sit atop ASTP mock-ups at JSC to symbolize their historic docking in Earth orbit mission schedules for summer ...

The U.S. Space and Rocket Center has completed the annual cleaning of the Apollo 16 Command module. The work ensures the display is preserved for generations to come. The archives team handles the ...

NASA's Apollo programme represents one of humanity's most audacious and successful ventures. Born from President John F. Kennedy's challenge to land a man on the Moon and return him safely to Earth, ...

Famed astronaut Jim Lovell, best known his work on Gemini and Apollo missions, died on Aug. 7, NASA announced. Lovell, 97, died in Lake Forest, Illinois. He served as the command module pilot for the ...

They were the pioneers of space exploration - the 24 Nasa astronauts who travelled to the Moon in the Apollo missions of the 1960s and 1970s. The death of Apollo 13 commander Jim Lovell, who guided ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jim Lovell (Credit: Getty Images) Jim Lovell, the naval aviator and mechanical engineer who is most famous for commanding the ...

Jim Lovell, the naval aviator and mechanical engineer who is most famous for commanding the space mission Apollo 13 safely back to Earth after mechanical issues led to an aborted moon landing in 1970, ...