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On Sept. 25, 1973, Tim Hogan and his colleagues from the Navy’s Underwater Demolition Team leapt from a hovering helicopter into the churning Pacific Ocean to

In Apollo 13, after the explosion that crippled the mission’s Command Module, flight director Gene Kranz famously tells a panicked mission control, “Let’s work the problem, people.”

Time after time Neil Armstrong faced possible disaster in his career. But he always kept his head, worked the problem and survived to succeed.

The first man to step onto the Moon will skip a Nasa event commemorating the 40th anniversary of the landmark mission.

'Apollo 13' cinematographer and production designer reflect on Ron Howard's inspiring masterpiece

On July 21, 1969, U.S. astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin, lifted off from the moon in the Apollo 11 lunar module Eagle.

Take a look back at that fateful Moon mission on its 54th Anniversary.

Given the rich history of lunar expeditions, particularly the Apollo programme, which provided groundbreaking technologies for human landings, the ambitious goal of returning humans to the Moon appears to be within reach. The Apollo-11 mission marked a historic milestone in 1969 and the Apollo 17 concluded the series as the final human lunar mission in 1972. While the focus in recent years has been on robotic missions for scientific experiments, the excitement of landing and working on Moon adds...

Famous US astronauts with links to Ireland, from Neil Armstrong and Michael Collins to Chris Hadfield.

There is some debate on how many people could fit inside SpaceX Starships that are converted into Space Stations. We can get a better maximum estimate by