We had an interesting salon gathering recently at the Barnes & Noble bookstore café. Joel Levine, who for 41 years served as a senior scientist at NASA, currently serves as a research professor in the ...

Fifty-five years ago today, humans landed on the Moon. On the mission were three American pilots, all military pilots who had served as combat or test pilots before heading to space. Apollo 11’s lunar ...

About an hour after the launch of Apollo 11 on July 16, 1969, Stephen and Viola Armstrong emerged from their Wapakoneta, Ohio, home to address members of the news media gathered on their lawn. “I was ...

William Anders, Air Force pilot, diplomat, nuclear engineer and astronaut who was one of the first three people to orbit the Moon as part of the Apollo 8 mission, died Friday, June 7 when his plane ...

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, ...

Indiana Jones changes the course of space history in his fifth and final big screen adventure. The fedora-wearing, whip-bearing archeologist (played by Harrison Ford) crosses paths with four of NASA's ...