Nasa. Apollo 14. Astronaut Edgard Mitchel walks alone a long distance from the lunar module. From Apollo 15 onwards, Apollo astronauts benefited from the lunar rover to cover greater distances around ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Carlos Villagomez was gifted this golf ball by Apollo 14 astronaut Alan Shepard soon after the ...

Historic photograph showing astronaut Alan Shepard on the lunar surface, standing beside the American flag during the Apollo ...

Though Stuart Roosa loved being in the great outdoors — he’d once been a U.S. Forest Service smokejumper — the job he held at the beginning of 1971 made being outdoors an impossibility. Roosa was the ...

Dennis Worsham inherited a lunar legacy – and burden – when he bought former NASA astronaut Stuart Roosa’s home in west Austin. Roosa had carried as many as 500 tree seeds on his Apollo 14 mission in ...

NASA. Apollo 14 mission. Nice view of an APOLLO capsule. Recovery area in the Pacific Ocean. U.S. Navy frogmen prepare to place the Apollo 14 space capsule aboard the recovery ship USS New Orleans.

They were the pioneers of space exploration - the 24 Nasa astronauts who travelled to the Moon in the Apollo missions of the 1960s and 1970s. The loss of Apollo 13 commander Jim Lovell, who guided the ...

Frank Borman, who commanded two early NASA missions including the first to orbit the moon, has died at age 95. In a statement, NASA said Borman died Nov. 7 in Billings, Mont. after a stroke. His death ...

On Christmas Eve 1968, the Earth received a message from astronauts on a mission like no other - the first around the moon. NASA will return in 2026.