Buzz Aldrin, the second man and only one of 12 to ever walk on the moon, turns 96 today. He’s just one of four living moonwalkers and the oldest remaining astronaut still making trips around the sun.

CHICAGO (AP) — 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, Illinois, NASA said in a statement on Friday.

It has been 56 years since Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin left the Moon. But is the landing site really frozen in time, or has the harsh lunar environment destroyed our history? We often imagine the Apollo 11 landing site at the Sea of Tranquility exactly as it appears in the famous photographs: the glistening gold foil of the Eagle,

While Alan Shepard played one of the worst rounds of Moon golf on record, an experiment was circling the Moon 34 times on board the Command Module.

CHICAGO (AP) — 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, Illinois, NASA said in a statement on Friday.