On Dec. 21, 1968, NASA’s Apollo 8 mission launched to the moon. Apollo 8 was the second crewed mission in NASA’s Apollo program. It was also the first mission to bring humans to the moon. It lifted ...

The Orion spacecraft being prepared for the Artemis 2 mission. Exploration programs would get a sharp funding increase in a House spending bill for fiscal year 2026. Credit: NASA/Rad Sinyak The recent ...

Famed NASA astronaut Jim Lovell, who commanded the harrowing Apollo 13 mission that was forced to abandon a lunar landing attempt in 1970, has died. He was 97. Lovell died on August 7 in Lake Forest, ...

"Apollo 13" stars Tom Hanks, the late Bill Paxton and Kevin Bacon as three NASA astronauts who must navigate safely back to Earth after their spacecraft encounters troubles on the way to the moon. To ...

The Apollo-Soyuz Test Project brought Soviet cosmonauts and NASA astronauts together in the first international human spaceflight. A 1973 artist’s concept of the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project, with the ...

Apollo completed a $6.3 billion acquisition of IGT's Gaming & Digital Business and Everi, forming a global gaming leader. Apollo has successfully completed its acquisitions of International Game ...

Apollo (NYSE: NYSE:APO) announced that funds it manages by its affiliates will sell their interest in MAFTEC Group Co., Ltd., a leading Japanese provider of ultra-high temperature heat insulation for ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. In the world of "The Last of Us," the Apollo 15 command module and other space exploration ...

GM equipped a van with a prototype fuel cell hydrogen power system in the 1960s. NASA was simultaneously using fuel cells to generate electricity on Apollo missions. The powertrain took up so much ...

Today is the 102 nd birthday of Apollo 7 astronaut Wally Schirra, who won an Emmy award for filming a TV show in space while suffering from a bad cold. Apollo 7 astronauts (left to right) Donn Eisele ...