WASHINGTON — The Space Force is taking applications from companies and universities for the first round of space domain awareness projects at its Colorado Springs, Colorado-based technology hub, ...

Apollo 17, the final NASA mission to send humans to the Moon for Project Apollo, splashed down on this day in 1972. [...] ...

44 years. That's how long it's been since Apollo 17, the last manned mission to the Moon, returned to Earth. With all of the technological advancements that have come about in the past four decades, ...

The veteran of a near-disastrous Gemini 8 mission, Armstrong kept his cool despite repeated computer program alarms and a guidance system that tried to land in a field of boulders. Conrad’s pinpoint ...

Looking back on the trajectory leading to Project Apollo and the resulting Moon missions, one can be forgiven for thinking that this was a strict and well-defined plan that was being executed, ...

Fifty years ago this month, a man took the first human steps on the moon. That accomplishment was launched as an aggressive policy goal by President Kennedy in 1961. The next year he spoke his ...

The Apollo moon landings represent a milestone in human history, albeit one driven by the Cold War rivalry with the Soviet Union and the demonstration of American technological capability in a global ...

Though Neil Armstrong called it a “small step for man,” the Apollo 11 Moon landing was certainly no small expense. It took 400,000 people to put two men -- Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin -- on the Moon 50 ...

The ground-based Deep-Space Advanced Radar Capability, which is being built by Northrop Grumman, is one of the Space Force's space domain awareness systems. (Northrop Grumman) WASHINGTON — The Space ...