Modern smartphones contain millions of times more computing power than the technology that took NASA’s first astronauts to the moon 50 years ago this week. Phil Goldstein is a former web editor of the ...

Commanded by Alan Shepard, the only original Mercury astronaut to make it to the Moon on an Apollo mission, Apollo 14 was a reflight of Apollo 13’s abandoned lunar landing plan. Accompanied by Lunar ...

Click to open image viewer. This poster depicts an astronaut in the center of the triangular shape of the Apollo Command Module. He is surrounded by men and women performing the variety of jobs needed ...

(CBS) – On July 6, 1969, Apollo 11 lifted off with its sight set on the moon. The crew consisted of Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins, but there was a crucial "fourth crew member" on ...

Editor's Note: This article is part of a series reflecting on the Apollo 11 mission, 50 years later. Without the computers on board the Apollo spacecraft, there would have been no moon landing, no ...

When President John F. Kennedy stood in front of a joint session of Congress on May 25, 1961, proclaiming that the United States would put an American on the moon by the end of the decade, it was a ...