Fifty-four years ago, NASA launched the Surveyor 2, an uncrewed mission to explore the surface of the Moon. Alas, the spacecraft went into a tumble en route after a failed course-correction burn, and ...

Back in 1966, a NASA spacecraft carried people far above the Earth's surface, setting a new altitude record and giving us a gorgeous view of the planet below. Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers ...

When NASA released this image from their Lunar Orbiter 1 back in 1966, the first photograph ever of the Earth rising above the Moon’s surface, it was low resolution but they still amazed the world.

This print is of NASA red-numbered image #S-66-62926. Astronaut Buzz Aldrin, pilot of the Gemini 12 spacecraft, is seen in a self-photograph during extra-vehicular activity in 1966. James Lovell was ...

Sixty years after Neil Armstrong barely survived an emergency in orbit around Earth on Gemini 8, Never-before-seen photos of Neil Armstrong’s heroic return have been donated to the Ohio museum that ...

Surveyor 2 crashed on the moon in 1966. Astronomers think they’ve spotted a piece of the mission that kept going deeper into space. By Katherine Kornei Dec. 2: This article has been updated with ...

Transmitted to NASA's Langley Research Facility on August, 23, 1966, this image became one of the most recognizable and important images in early space exploration. The seller has recorded the ...