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. The death of Apollo 13 commander Jim Lovell, who guided ...

Tom Hanks is celebrating the launch of NASA's Artemis II mission, and the four astronauts that make up its crew. "Did you know that no humans have traveled beyond the gravitational pull of the Earth ...

Artemis II has now traveled further into space from Earth than any other human in history, passing the previous record set by Apollo 13 in 1970. Artemis II is in the middle of its 10-day mission to ...

The Apollo 13 mission was to land on the moon for a third, but it soon turned into a rescue mission. An oxygen tank exploded aboard the spacecraft, causing both the crew on board and ground control to ...

CHICAGO (AP) — James Lovell, the commander of Apollo 13 who helped turn a failed moon mission into a triumph of on-the-fly can-do engineering, has died. He was 97. Lovell died Thursday in Lake Forest, ...

HOUSTON (AP) — The Artemis II astronauts commenced their lunar flyby on Monday, capturing stunning views of the moon's far side while setting a new distance record for human space travel. This mission ...

NASA’s Artemis II mission has broken the record for the farthest human travel from Earth. The four astronauts on board the Orion spacecraft surpassed the previous record of 400,171km (248,655 miles) ...

In keeping with his continued, Forrest Gump-impelled cultural duties, Tom Hanks was present at the site of American history today. The veteran actor and star of interstellar classic Apollo 13 ...