We had an interesting salon gathering recently at the Barnes & Noble bookstore café. Joel Levine, who for 41 years served as a senior scientist at NASA, currently serves as a research professor in the ...

The last human to walk on the surface of the Moon was Apollo 17 Commander Gene Cernan on Dec. 14, 1972. NASA is now preparing to send the first woman and the first person of color to the surface of ...

Astronaut Thomas Kenneth Mattingly II, better known as Ken or “TK” Mattingly, died on Oct. 31 at the age of 87. Over his long career he served as a naval aviator, test pilot, aeronautical engineer and ...

No explorers ever traveled farther from home than the Apollo astronauts. As artists, they’re still underrated. By Jason Farago James A. Lovell Jr., the commander of the Apollo 13 mission, led the ...

BRADENTON, Fla. -- Fifty years after the Apollo 15 crew visited the moon, members of the family of astronaut Jim Irwin, the lunar module pilot who also drove the lunar rover, unveiled his NASA ...

On July 31, 1971, the Lunar Roving Vehicle (LRV) made its lunar debut. The LRV, developed my Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, would travel just over 17 miles, logging three hours ...

Jeff Hessel, a resident of a 55+ retirement community, shares his experiences working at Cape Canaveral during the Space Race. Hessel's presentations cover historical facts, personal anecdotes, and ...

NASA’s Apollo Program was nearly derailed by tragedy, but against all odds, the world witnessed history in 1969. Armstrong, Aldrin, and Collins faced impossible odds to land on the moon—this is how ...