MYSTERY WIRE — With much of the nation’s attention on NASA with the new rover landing on Mars, this month also marks another milestone. It was 50 years ago this month that NASA launched and returned ...

Apollo 14 — the safely numbered one after that, um, other one — splashed down 40 years ago today. Since there were no dancing-on-the-edge death-defying dramatic escapes on this one, the mission is ...

Apollo 14 astronaut Edgar Mitchell, who became the sixth man on the moon when he and Alan Shepard helped NASA recover from Apollo 13's "successful failure" and later devoted his life to exploring the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On February 5, 1971, two Apollo 14 astronauts landed on the moon! Apollo 14 commander Alan Shepard and the lunar module pilot ...

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 ...

Once America's most experienced astronaut, Apollo 13's Jim Lovell, who died at 97, was the first to visit the moon twice.

Anita Mitchell celebrates the history of the U.S. Space Program and shares eye-opening behind-the-scenes stories in her riveting new memoir. Author Anita Mitchell Anita Mitchell, who was married to ...