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

"Thanks for all your effort," wrote the first moonwalker. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Neil Armstrong was appreciative, but as ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. NASA crew systems chief Ed Smylie shows the work that he and his team did in April 1970 to jury ...

Ed Smylie, who became a quiet hero of the space age in 1970 when he and his fellow NASA engineers jury-rigged an air filter that kept the three Apollo 13 astronauts alive after an onboard explosion ...

David McFarland was just shy of his 14th birthday when on July 20, 1969, he sat in front of the family television and joined 650 million other enthralled viewers as Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin ...

The race to land man on the moon in the 1960s was a wild time for engineers, who were working at the edge of what was possible to try and fly a rocket the size of a 25-story building to our nearest ...

We all know that duct tape is a versatile tool. For one example, just consider the Apollo 13 mission, when NASA astronauts failed in their attempt to land on the moon, but NASA engineers successfully ...

Neil Armstrong was appreciative, but as explained in his handwritten letter, it was too late. The Apollo 11 commander and his crewmates had already arrived at a design to represent the first moon ...