HOUSTON, Texas -- The children of Apollo-era astronauts shared stories of growing up with space exploration heroes Thursday at Space Center Houston. Fifty years ago this week, millions watched as ...

Apollo 17, the final crewed lunar landing mission, aimed to collect highland samples crucial for completing the understanding of lunar evolution, unlike previous missions focused on lowland maria.

Shaving was something of a job on all the Apollo missions because in Zero-G, water doesn't just run off the face. Flickr/NASA Photo/ Project Apollo Archive The last human to walk on the moon was ...

A visual guide to the audacious moon-landing mission design that put SpaceX and NASA in the hot seat — and has experts ...

LIBERTY — The historic late 1972 launch of the Apollo 17 mission to the moon represented more than a space expedition to merely collect rock samples from the lunar landscape while making history: It ...

Moon becomes brighter for experts, with new insights gathered from the Apollo 17 lunar sample. Published in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets, these insights shed light on the mysterious ...

HOUSTON, Texas -- Scientists at the Johnson Space Center this week opened a 50-year-old lunar soil sample they hope will teach them more about the moon and Earth ahead of NASA's upcoming return to the ...