HOUSTON, Texas -- NASA astronaut John Young, who flew the agency's first Space Shuttle mission and walked on the surface of the Moon, has died. He was 87. NASA shared photos on its Twitter account ...

WASHINGTON -- Legendary astronaut John Young, who walked on the moon and later commanded the first space shuttle flight, has died, according to a statement from NASA. Young was 87. The space agency ...

"It’s amazing to think that this thing I have been working on in various capacities for the last eight years is about to send ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. WASHINGTON — Former astronaut John Young, a ...

This story was updated at 3:29 p.m. EDT. NASA has delayed a high-priority moon mission to make wayfor the space shuttle Endeavour to launch Wednesday. The shuttle was originally intended to blast off ...

On 1970, NASA cancelled the Apollo 20 moon mission. This came just six months after Apollo 11 astronauts Buzz Aldrin and Neil ...

The Atlantis space shuttle’s planned landing tomorrow marks the historic end of the Space Shuttle program. But it’s also another significant anniversary in space exploration: 42 years ago today, ...

This story was updated at 2:15 p.m. EDT. When NASA?sspace shuttle rockets into orbit tonight, it will do so under the placid glowof a nearly full moon. The moonwill rise over Discovery?s seaside ...

Lockheed Martin, the contractor working with NASA to take humans to Mars, introduced a reusable moon shuttle on Wednesday that it envisions as a prototype for a vehicle ferrying astronauts between the ...

NASA has a backup plan to launch crew and cargo to the moon, reduce the gap between shuttle retirement and a replacement ship's debut, and save taxpayers billions of dollars. They call it the ...

Former astronaut John Young, a NASA trailblazer whose six journeys into space included a walk on the moon and commanding the first space shuttle flight, died Friday after complications from pneumonia, ...

NASA has delayed a high-priority moon mission to make way for the space shuttle Endeavour to launch Wednesday. The shuttle was originally intended to blast off June 13 toward the International Space ...