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

As the United States approaches the 250th anniversary of its independence, NASA said the Artemis II mission has carried a collection of historic mementos. Among them was a flag originally designated

What began as a mission to land on the moon became history’s most harrowing space rescue after a technical failure forced the crew of Apollo 13 into a 200,000-mile race for survival.

Inside mission control, each desk, or console, is labeled with a neon blue sign and its officers handle a subsystem on the spacecraft carrying the Artemis II crew. This station is the nucleus of the operation. It’s where the flight director makes real-time decisions for mission execution, and where troubleshooting occurs.

The Space Launch Systems rocket will launch Artemis II in April, using tech that would be familiar to space enthusiasts and historians. (Copyright 2026 by WKMG ...

LIBERTY — The historic late 1972 launch of the Apollo 17 mission to the moon represented more than a space expedition to merely collect rock samples from the lunar landscape while making history: It meant something far more endearing and far-reaching, a ...

Astronaut Jim Lovell, who flew on two Apollo-era missions in 1968 and 1970, recorded a message for the Artemis II crew before his death in 2025.