Of the 24 Nasa astronauts who travelled to the Moon in the Apollo missions of the 1960s and 1970s, just five remain.

James Lovell, the commander of Apollo 13 who helped turn a failed Moon mission into a triumph of on-the-fly can-do ...

Jim Lovell, the NASA astronaut who commanded the famous Apollo 13 mission around the moon and back, has died, NASA has ...

WASHINGTON - American astronaut Jim Lovell, commander of the failed 1970 mission to the moon that nearly ended in disaster ...

American astronaut Jim Lovell, commander of the failed yet inspirational 1970 "Apollo 13" mission to the moon, died at the ...

Lovell commanded the mission that almost ended in disaster after an explosion that threatened the crew's oxygen and ...

Placing an atomic energy source on the lunar surface is “not science fiction,” experts say, but does pose technical ...

The reactor would launch to the moon by 2030, according to a directive by acting NASA Administrator Sean Duffy that was sent ...

NASA is accelerating its plans for a nuclear reactor on the moon. For several years now, the agency has been working to get a ...

NASA has awarded Firefly Aerospace a $176.7 million contract to deliver a pair of rovers and three scientific instruments to ...

Nuclear power in space isn't a new idea. Since the 1960s, the US and the Soviet Union have relied on radioisotope generators ...

NASA has been working behind the scenes for years to develop compact nuclear power systems designed to support lunar bases, ...