Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. To achieve President John F. Kennedy's goal of landing a man on the moon and returning him home safely by the end of the 1960s, ...

The Apollo missions to the moon established many of the guidelines that we still use for space travel today, with some modern tweaks.

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 ...