The Apollo moon landings represent a milestone in human history, albeit one driven by the Cold War rivalry with the Soviet Union and the demonstration of American technological capability in a global ...

WASHINGTON — The Space Force is taking applications from companies and universities for the first round of space domain awareness projects at its Colorado Springs, Colorado-based technology hub, ...

The ground-based Deep-Space Advanced Radar Capability, which is being built by Northrop Grumman, is one of the Space Force's space domain awareness systems. (Northrop Grumman) WASHINGTON — The Space ...

James A. Lovell Jr., the commander of the Apollo 13 mission, led the three man crew, narrowly surviving a near catastrophic explosion in space in 1970. By Jamie Leventhal He led the three-man crew ...

44 years. That's how long it's been since Apollo 17, the last manned mission to the Moon, returned to Earth. With all of the technological advancements that have come about in the past four decades, ...

Though Neil Armstrong called it a “small step for man,” the Apollo 11 Moon landing was certainly no small expense. It took 400,000 people to put two men -- Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin -- on the Moon 50 ...

The Apollo program was the first to bring humans to the moon. Even though the program began in the early 1960s until 1972, with 12 astronauts walking the moon's surface during this time frame, there ...