Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Artemis II mission, set to take off as early as Wednesday, and fly around the moon, is just the latest chapter in a long ...

As Eugene Cernan took his last steps on the lunar surface, the Apollo 17 commander promised to come back. “As we leave the Moon at Taurus-Littrow,” Cernan said Dec. 13, 1972, “we leave as we came and, ...

Apollo 8 astronaut Bill Anders adjlusts his helmet while suiting up for his 1968 moon mission. (NASA Photo) Apollo 8 astronaut Bill Anders, who snapped the iconic “Earthrise” photo of our planet as ...

Monday, April 6, was Flight Day 6 for the Artemis 2 mission. In many ways it was the mission’s climax, containing the lunar flyby, the closest approach to the Moon, and the literal turning point as ...

SEATTLE – Retired Maj. Gen. William Anders, the former Apollo 8 astronaut who took the iconic “Earthrise” photo showing the planet from space in 1968, was killed after a plane he was piloting alone ...

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Astronaut Frank Borman, who commanded Apollo 8’s historic Christmas 1968 flight that circled the moon 10 times and paved the way for the lunar landing the next year, has died. He was 95. Borman died ...