The last time NASA tried to land near the region was five decades ago with Apollo 18 — a mission that was subsequently cancelled. The mission will be carrying five payloads for NASA and will be ...

Once both modules were known to function, Apollo 10 tested the equipment in the moon's orbit. During the eight-day mission beginning on May 18, 1969, Tom Stafford, commander, and Gene Cernan ...

Astronauts on the Apollo missions of the 1960s and '70s collected rocks, took photos, performed experiments, planted flags, and then came home. But those stays didn't establish a lasting human ...

That would happen during the successive one-man missions of Project Mercury. But the Apollo project required a number of more advanced achievements before a lunar landing was feasible: astronauts ...

Two companies will attempt the first U.S. moon landings since the Apollo missions five-plus decades ago Two private companies are hustling to get the U.S. back in the game, more than five decades ...