Long before NASA's Apollo program, the U.S. Air Force was quietly drawing up plans for a secret underground military base on the moon, designed to seize the ultimate strategic high ground. What ...

On 26 May 1969, the command module of Apollo 10 hit Earth’s atmosphere travelling at 36,397 feet per second, or 39,937.7 ...

The Apollo program was the first to bring humans to the moon. Even though the program began in the early 1960s until 1972, with 12 astronauts walking the moon's surface during this time frame, there ...

Almost forgotten now, the mission circled the Earth for 10 days, performing a series of tests with the lunar lander. What it lacked in glory it made up for in technological contributions. By Kenneth ...

More than 50 years after the last manned moon mission, the Apollo program is still making groundbreaking discoveries. Lunar rock collected by Apollo 17 is revealing more about the Light Mantle, a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Five years ago to mark the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing, FLORIDA TODAY published an ambitious project called ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - The U.S. investment in the Apollo space program, which landed men on the moon, paid off handsomely, unlike the $100 billion plowed into the International Space ...

This collection consists of 160 Apollo era presentation lantern slides, 3.25 by 4 inch mounts as well as a few 35 mm slides. These slides were presumedly used by NASA as part of informational ...