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 ...

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- The goal was clear and anything but simple or fathomable. President John F. Kennedy issued the directive in 1961 to NASA: land a crew of astronauts on the moon and bring them ...

A half-century ago, in the middle of a mean year of war, famine, violence in the streets and the widening of the generation gap, men from planet Earth stepped onto another world for the first time, ...

The US space program won’t go anywhere without centralized leadership and a coordinating vision. There was a time when giants walked the Earth—and America produced such giants. No, I’m not talking ...

Frances 'Poppy' Northcutt speaks with a NASA colleague in Houston, Texas, circa 1969.TRW/PhotoQuest—Getty Images The boundary broken by the Apollo 11 astronauts, when they became the first humans to ...