Jim Lovell was the famed astronaut for NASA who led the Apollo 13 mission. A Saturn V rocket might have been his coolest ride ...

Apollo 16 commander John W. Young was captured in a remarkable moment, leaping while saluting the American flag on the lunar ...

On Christmas Eve 1968, the Earth received a message from astronauts on a mission like no other - the first around the moon.

Nearly 60 years ago, three Americans made history as the first humans to ever break free of Earth's orbit on their way toward the moon. And when they passed behind the moon to the side Earth never ...

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. Not since the end of 1972 has a human set foot on the ...

Discover how NASA used controlled explosions on the Moon during the Apollo missions to investigate its hidden interior and ...

When Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin stepped onto the Sea of Tranquility in July 1969, they deployed several scientific ...

Few institutions have shaped humanity’s understanding of space quite like NASA. Since its founding ...

Stephen Smith is a managing editor for CBSNews.com based in New York. A Washington, D.C. native, Steve was previously an editorial producer for the Washington Post, and has also worked in Los Angeles, ...