Never-before-seen photographs have been released showing NASA astronauts testing the limits of human endurance and technology ...

On 20 February 1962, NASA astronaut John Glenn became the first American to orbit Earth. The mission was part of NASA’s Mercury human spaceflight programme and came just nine months after Soviet ...

James Lovell, a member of humanity’s first trip to the moon and commander of NASA’s ill-fated Apollo 13 mission, has died at ...

The naval aviator turned astronaut led the mission, guiding it safely back to Earth after it went perilously wrong.

Astronaut Jim Lovell, who guided the Apollo 13 mission safely back to Earth in 1970, has died aged 97. Nasa said he had ...

Andy Saunders painstakingly restores film from the dawn of human space exploration, helping us see through the eyes of the ...

Lovell commanded the mission that almost ended in disaster after an explosion that threatened the crew's oxygen and ...

SAN DIEGO — Walter M. Schirra Jr., one of the original Mercury Seven astronauts and the only man to fly on NASA’s Mercury, Gemini and Apollo programs, died Thursday. He was 84.

The bill applies only to artifacts held by U.S. astronauts "who participated in any of the Mercury, Gemini, or Apollo programs through the completion of the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project" in 1975.

Three astronauts had died in what would have been the first Apollo spacecraft to fly; they were trapped in a flash fire during a test on the launch pad in January 1967.

Despite Jim Lovell's physical similarities to actor Kevin Costner, Tom Hanks would portray Lovell in the movie "Apollo 13." ...

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.