The crew, Commander James A. Lovell Jr., command module pilot John L. “Jack” Swigert and lunar module pilot Fred Haise, was to be the third team of Apollo astronauts to achieve a moon landing.

Daily life in both a prison and in space is governed by structured routines. In prisons, days are often planned down to the minute, dictating everything from waking to sleeping. This rigid scheduling ...

Life for astronauts in a Martian colony will be extremely similar to the conditions inside today's prisons, according to a ...

Celebrate the 56th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing with your kids at Space Exploration Day at MOSI. Read about all the fun things to do!

I have been researching the possibility of living on Mars for several years. But it took an invitation to give a talk about space at HMP Erlestoke in England – a category C men’s prison – to make me ...

More than 3,500 of those stem from the historic Apollo Moon landing effort, with 400 objects related specifically to the first successful lunar landing mission, Apollo 11. On July 20, 1969, astronauts ...

Tiny glass beads formed in the fires of explosive volcanic eruptions on the moon, and brought back to Earth by Apollo 17, ...

NASA intends to land the "first woman and first person of color" on the moon as part of the Artemis III mission. This will be ...

Microscopy image of lunar dust simulant sample. (Credit: Michaela B. Smith) This study comes as NASA plans to land astronauts on the lunar surface for the first time since Apollo 17 in 1972 and is ...

This Command Module Simulator was used at Kennedy Space Center to train the Apollo astronauts. It was used in conjunction with the Lunar Module Simulator. The simulated command module was patterned ...