In this short Today in history video, I talk about what happened on 11 October 1968, when NASA launched Apollo 7. I explain ...

Neil Armstrong almost made a mistake. He had found an interesting rock sticking out of a formation. Curious to see what the rock was made of, he needed to examine its interior more closely. So he ...

James Lovell, the commander of Apollo 13 who helped turn a failed moon mission into a triumph of on-the-fly can-do engineering, has died. He was 97. Lovell died Thursday in Lake Forest, Illinois, NASA ...

The famed Apollo 13 rescue has been the focus of several movies, including a 2024 Netflix documentary. Not all the films have ...

Back to the Moon on National Geographic TV.

More than 50 years after the last manned moon mission, the Apollo program is still making groundbreaking discoveries. Lunar rock collected by Apollo 17 is revealing more about the Light Mantle, a ...

A symbol of Florida's Space Coast, the VAB at Kennedy Space Center has powered moon missions past and present. Here is its ...

Newly declassified government files detailing "UFO" sightings during NASA's Apollo missions are challenging long-running conspiracy theories that the Moon landings were staged. The conspiracy theories ...

James Lovell, the commander of Apollo 13 and a Navy veteran, has died. Here, Lovell speaks during a televised news conference at the Manned Spacecraft Center in Houston, Texas, on April 21, 1970.