It has been 54 years since NASA landed astronauts on the Moon for the third time. On February 5, 1971, astronauts Alan ...

On February 5, 1971, two Apollo 14 astronauts landed on the moon! Apollo 14 commander Alan Shepard and the lunar module pilot ...

In 1917, Germany announces it will wage unrestricted submarine warfare against all ships, including passenger carriers, in ...

Apollo 14 lifted off from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in 1971 on the first crewed mission to the Moon's highlands.

Alan Shepard who had been the first American in space, commanded Apollo 14 and landed with Ed Mitchell in the Fra Mauro highlands; Stuart Roosa piloted the command module. Dave Scott, Al Worden ...

the Apollo 14 and 15 moon missions of 1971 put the United States that much closer to the end of its Apollo series of spaceflights. For Russia, the year in space was both triumphant and tragic.

For that reason, NASA made photography a high priority during the Apollo missions, redesigning cameras that could operate in the punishing environment of space and inventing ultra-thin film that ...

Apollo 1’s crew knew their ship could never reach the Moon. It was never meant to. The barebones ‘Block 1’ spacecraft, intended only for Earth-orbital tests, had none of the navigational ...