SAN DIEGO (CNS) - Those who planned, ran and piloted the Apollo Program will be venerated Saturday at the San Diego Air & Space Museum for the "Legacy of Apollo" gala celebration. The museum will host a few of those who helped the United States get to the ...

Wickliffe Public Library will be hosting a talk on “The Apollo Space Program” at 7 p.m. June 12. Between 1969 and 1972, 21 American astronauts left Earth’s orbit and voyaged to the moon as part of NASA’s Apollo Program. Twelve of those men walked ...

From Mercury & Apollo Missions to the Space Shuttle Program, Mars Rover Landings, & Artemis II. In 1957, the beeps from Sputnik, a small Russian satellite, sent the Cold War between the Soviet Union and United States… On May 5, 1961, Alan Shepard became ...

North American Aviation’s X-15 rocket plane reached 4,520 mph and climbed to 354,200 feet during a program that ran from 1959 to 1968, producing flight data NASA credits as foundational to later U.S.

"On July 20, 1969, U.S. astronaut Neil Armstrong took 'one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.' The success of the Apollo 11 mission satisfied the goal that had been set by President John F. Kennedy just over eight years earlier - 'before ...