From left, Apollo 1 astronauts Gus Grissom, Ed White and Roger Chaffee pose in front of their Saturn 1 launch vehicle at Launch Complex 34 at the Kennedy Space Centre, Florida. On the morning of ...

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

Skimming just 60 miles above the surface, astronauts Frank Borman, James Lovell, and William Anders stared into the Moon’s ...

On Christmas Eve 1968, Apollo 8 crewmembers Frank Borman, Jim Lovell, and Bill Anders made a live broadcast from orbit around the Moon.

Recently, yet another Apollo astronaut, Jim Lovell, passed on. Lovell’s fame was as defined by his role as a pop culture icon as it was by his astronaut heroics. Everybody who came of age during the ...

CHICAGO - Apollo 13 commander James Lovell, who helped turn a failed moon mission into a triumph of on-the-fly engineering, has died. He was 97 years old. Apollo 13 commander James Lovell has died at ...

Apollo astronaut Jim Lovell died six weeks before the movie about his rescue mission is set for a 30th anniversary rerelease in IMAX. Lovell, the 97-year-old Gemini XII and Apollo astronaut who died ...

Apollo 7 had marked the first crewed mission of the program in October 1968 after a launchpad fire killed three astronauts in January 1967. Apollo 8’s launch followed a couple of months after Apollo 7 ...

The Artemis II mission, which could launch as early as February, is expected to send four astronauts on a trip to the moon, ...