An 18-karat gold version of the first watch worn on the moon has set a record for the most paid for an astronaut's timepiece.

Although this beverage mix was nearly synonymous with space travel and played an important role in media coverage of Apollo 8 ...

Debuting May 6, "BUZZ" tells the dramatized story of the challenges that the Apollo 11 astronaut faced both before and after ...

The auction house also sold a gold Omega Speedmaster that belonged to Apollo 14 astronaut Edgar Mitchell for $142,664. Though ...

One thing he didn’t do: Go to the moon. So when we invited Jones to interview two Apollo astronauts, Charlie Duke and Al Worden, in March 2019, he jumped at the chance. On his fourth shuttle ...

61 years ago, humanity reached space for the second time with NASA 's Project Mercury. On the morning of May 5, 1961, naval aviator and test pilot Alan B. Shepard Jr. hopped onto the Freedom ...

One of the most impressive subplots of the Tom Hanks movie “Apollo 13,”  a film now 30 years old if you can believe that, was ...

In a fascinating intersection of space exploration and Earth science, NASA’s Apollo astronauts once trained on the alien-like ...

The space agency wants to come up with a way to transform 96 sacks of feces, urine and vomit — ditched by Apollo astronauts to lighten their load — into water, energy, and fertilizer ...

An astronaut who missed out on the first all-female spacewalk because of a spacesuit sizing issue got her chance six years ...

Like all of the astronauts who flew Gemini and Apollo missions, NASA issued Armstrong with an Omega Speedmaster Professional chronograph as part of his flight equipment. As the commander of the ...