On November 14, 1969, the Apollo 12 mission launched to the moon. This was the second moon landing of the Apollo program. The two astronauts on board were Pete Conrad and Alan Bean. Richard Gordon ...

Good landing, Pete! Outstanding, man! Beautiful!” With those words, Lunar Module Pilot Alan Bean congratulated Apollo 12 Commander Pete Conrad moments after one of the most precise landings in the ...

The Shenzhou 22 mission, originally scheduled to fly next year, is now scheduled to launch on Tuesday, Nov. 25, at 04:11 UTC ...

The cost of the Apollo program includes the Mercury and Gemini programs which paved the way. In total, it's about $280 billion when adjusted for inflation.

Casey Handmer is an Australian-born physicist, engineer, entrepreneur, and pilot renowned for his pioneering work at the intersection of astrophysics and ...

Downtown Dawson Creek isn’t where you might expect to take a tour of the history of the Space Race. But hidden inside an ...

On November 17, 1967, NASA's Surveyor 6 spacecraft made the first liftoff from the lunar surface. Surveyor 6 was one of several robotic missions NASA sent to scout the lunar surface before sending ...

On this day in 1969, Apollo 12—the second crewed mission to land on the Moon—launched from Cape Kennedy on a mission that almost ended before it truly began.

Going into space is no small feat, and the cost to get people, satellites, and more to space is equally costly. Here are the ...

On Friday night, when UCF takes the field against Houston in what’s being billed as “The Space Game,” there’s really only one question worth asking: Which school is truly America’s “Space University”?