On this day in 1969, NASA formally announced the prime crew selected to carry out the Apollo 11 mission, a decision that would soon mark one of the most defining moments in human history.

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As NASA prepares to bring Crew-11 home early, here's a look at other medical issues or space emergencies that NASA has ...

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In July 1969, the Soviet N1 moon rocket detonated at Baikonur just days before Apollo 11, exposing how close, and how fragile, the Moon Race really was. Then an even darker launchpad catastrophe in ...

Astronauts on the International Space Station (ISS) completed a change-of-command ceremony today (Jan. 12) ahead of the early ...

All four Crew 11 fliers looked healthy and in good spirits on a space-to-ground television broadcast of the change of command ceremony with no indication of which astronaut may have experienced the ...

NASA began demolishing part of its own history over the weekend. Crews at the Marshall Space Flight Center are removing the ...