This week, several family members of Connecticut veterans, were bestowed military medals awarded to their loved ones that ...

The American Revolution started with trailblazers facing steep odds and little margin for error, solving problems by adapting ...

During the regular school calendar students take field trips to enhance knowledge best engaged outside the classroom, and ...

A historic lunar module simulator in the Cradle of Aviation Museum in Uniondale played a role Wednesday in the next phase of space exploration that eventually could take humankind to Mars and beyond.

On May 13, 1964, NASA launched the second abort test of the Apollo spacecraft. This uncrewed mission would demonstrate that the launch escape system could safely eject the Apollo command module in ...

When the first Apollo mission to carry astronauts to orbit launched on October 11, 1968, everyone at NASA sighed in relief. Apollo 7 rose on a pillar of flame from Kennedy Space Center’s Pad 34 on ...

The takeaway: The code that guided Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin to the lunar surface has been released in digital form for public access. Nearly six decades after the Apollo 11 mission, the original ...

The Lockheed Martin Orion is the latest arrival of a human-rated spacecraft slated to take humans beyond the bounds of Low Earth Orbit and close to the surface of another heavenly body. But for all ...

The Apollo 13 mission remains one of the most dramatic episodes in the history of human spaceflight. Originally planned as NASA’s third mission to land astronauts on the Moon, Apollo 13 instead turned ...

Margaret Hamilton supervised a division at MIT called the Software Engineering Division, which designed flight software used in NASA’s Apollo missions. As NASA describes, “Margaret’s work in flight ...