The Ambassador of Exploration Award recognizes the sacrifices and dedication of the Apollo, Gemini and Mercury astronauts. Each astronaut or their surviving families will be presented a lunar sample, ...

We had an interesting salon gathering recently at the Barnes & Noble bookstore café. Joel Levine, who for 41 years served as a senior scientist at NASA, currently serves as a research professor in the ...

Fifty-five years ago today, humans landed on the Moon. On the mission were three American pilots, all military pilots who had served as combat or test pilots before heading to space. Apollo 11’s lunar ...

About an hour after the launch of Apollo 11 on July 16, 1969, Stephen and Viola Armstrong emerged from their Wapakoneta, Ohio, home to address members of the news media gathered on their lawn. “I was ...

Fifty-seven years ago, three American astronauts set forth on one of the most audacious and inspiring journeys in human history. In late December 1968, NASA astronauts Frank Borman, James Lovell, and ...

William Anders, Air Force pilot, diplomat, nuclear engineer and astronaut who was one of the first three people to orbit the Moon as part of the Apollo 8 mission, died Friday, June 7 when his plane ...

BRADENTON, Fla. -- Fifty years after the Apollo 15 crew visited the moon, members of the family of astronaut Jim Irwin, the lunar module pilot who also drove the lunar rover, unveiled his NASA ...