Apollo 9 - Three To Make Ready (1969)

Since the 1960s, scientists have suspected that frozen water could survive in cold, dark craters at the moon's poles.

This video explains the formation of several mysterious looking features on the Moon, while providing some quirky humor along the way.

The Moon from NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter

In December of 1968, the crew of Apollo 8 became the first people to leave our home planet and travel to another body in space.

Astronaut John Young, who walked on the Moon during Apollo 16 and commanded the first space shuttle mission, has passed away at the age of 87.

A close-up view of a footpad and surface sampler with scoop (arm, out of frame) on the Surveyor 3 spacecraft which was photographed by the Apollo 12 astronauts during their second extravehicular ac...

What does the other side of the Moon look like, the side that can't be seen from the Earth? This video answers that question.

A documentary view of the Apollo 17 journey to Taurus-Littrow, the final lunar landing mission in the Apollo Program.

In October 2017, The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter celebrated 100 lunar days of being at the Moon. That's about eight Earth years.

Apollo 8 Astronaut James Lovell, Command Module (CM) pilot of the first manned Saturn V space flight into Lunar orbit, accepted a phone call from the U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson prior to launc...

This NASA video details the first journey of men around the moon.

Astronaut David R. Scott, commander, standing on the slope of Hadley Delta, uses a 70mm camera during Apollo 15 extravehicular activity (EVA) on the lunar surface.

Astronaut Russell L. Schweickart, lunar module pilot, stands in "golden slippers" on the Lunar Module porch during his extravehicular activity on the fourth day of the Apollo 9 Earth-orbital missio...

Set to Claude Debussy's Clair de Lune, this visualization uses Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter data to show the stark beauty of evolving light and shadow near sunrise and sunset on the rugged lunar su...

The Apollo 8 Crew included (L to R) James Lovell, Command Module (CM) pilot; William Anders, Lunar Module (LM) Pilot; and Frank Borman, Commander. 

At the end of the last Apollo 15 moon walk, Commander David Scott (pictured above) performed a live demonstration for the television cameras.

Astronauts James A. Lovell Jr. (left) commander, and Fred W. Haise Jr., lunar module pilot, carry out a simulation of a lunar traverse at Kilauea, Hawaii, site.

Footage of the recovery of the Apollo 8 crew

This is the first footage of one orbiting robotic spacecraft taken by another orbiting robotic spacecraft at Earth's moon. 

Depicts the dramatic voyage of Apollo 13. The most serious accident to occur in space changed the mission from a routine lunar landing to a desperate fight for crew survival.

Apollo 7 lifts off from Cape Kennedy Launch Complex 34 at 11:03 A.M., EDT.

Replicas of Snoopy and Charlie Brown, the two characters from Charles Schulz's syndicated comic strip, "Peanuts," decorate the top of a console in the Mission Operations Control Room in the Mission...

The Apollo 7 Saturn IB launched from the Kennedy Space Center's Launch Complex 34 at 11:03 a.m. October 11, 1968.

This photograph was taken from the Apollo 8 spacecraft with long-focal length lens, looking south at the large crater Goclenius, which is in foreground.

A close-up view of the plaque which the Apollo 14 astronauts will leave behind on the moon during their lunar landing mission.