Most people in Central Florida recognize the name John Young because it appears on a major Orlando roadway and even an ...

On February 5, 1971, two Apollo 14 astronauts landed on the moon! Apollo 14 commander Alan Shepard and the lunar module pilot Edgar Mitchell left their crewmate Stuart Roosa in the command module and ...

SpaceX launched 26 missions from Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Pad 39-A in 2025 including four human spaceflight missions. That era is coming to an end.

Artemis II is set to blast off to the moon in early February with four astronauts, including the Canadian Space Agency's ...

Not only will Artemis II be the first mission to reach the moon in more than half a century, it will also represent a significant demographic and cultural shift. Koch will be the first woman to go to ...

Live updates from SpaceX’s Tuesday night GPS III-9 mission that launched a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.

The Cosmosphere in Kansas will host a watch party for the upcoming Artemis II launch. The event will feature a live NASA broadcast, expert presentations, and family-friendly activities. Artemis II ...

The Cosmosphere is hosting a "13 Days of Christmas" movie series from December 12 to 24. The series will feature a different classic or modern holiday film each night in the Justice Planetarium. The ...

CHICAGO — 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, Ill ...

More than six decades ago, the United States launched its first satellite into Earth orbit, turning the dream of spaceflight into reality. Space tourism may be inching closer, but until off-planet ...

Recently, yet another Apollo astronaut, Jim Lovell, passed on. Lovell’s fame was as defined by his role as a pop culture icon as it was by his astronaut heroics. Everybody who came of age during the ...

Born on March 25, 1928, in Cleveland, Lovell was a child of the Great Depression, his early years shaped by loss and curiosity. His father died in a car crash when Jim was 12, prompting his mother to ...