The three-legged Surveyor 3 (an engineering model will ... sites for the Apollo astronauts who were already in training. That same year saw the first landing by a Surveyor spacecraft.

An 18-karat gold version of the first watch worn on the moon has set a record for the most paid for an astronaut's timepiece.

As for Eisele, his Apollo 7 reputation and a 1970 divorce—embarrassing for a space agency still determined to point to the astronauts as American-as-apple-pie role models—diminished his ...

a suspended model of the Hubble Space Telescope and full-size replicas of the U.K.'s Beagle 2 Mars lander, the European Space Agency's (ESA) Huygens Titan lander and NASA's Apollo 11 lunar module ...

In order to take photographs of the far side of the moon the Apollo spacecraft had been rolled so that its windows pointed towards the lunar surface. During this time, the Moon was between the ...

The cavernous thermal-vacuum test facility is famous for testing the Apollo spacecraft that traveled to the moon in the 1960s and '70s. The instrument enclosure is designed to protect the ...

The crew of NASA's Apollo 11 mission, from left, Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin, Michael Collins, and Neil Armstrong, pose with a model of the moon ... launch at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral ...