A piece of moon rock gifted to Ireland following NASA's historic Apollo 11 mission in 1969 was tragically destroyed in a fire, newly uncovered documents from Ireland's National Archives reveal.

The NASA moon rock the US gifted Ireland from the Apollo 11 mission was burned in a fire, according to Ireland’s National Archives documents. Credits: Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons. The NASA ...

“The words that we read are very appropriate.” Here are selected stories from Deseret News archives of the Apollo 8 mission — which began Dec. 21 and ended with an ocean splashdown on Dec. 27, ...

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Overall view of the Mission Operations Control Room in the Mission Control Center, Building 30, on the third day of the Apollo 8 lunar orbit mission. Seen on the television monitor is a picture of ...

SpaceX's Starship splashed down in the Indian Ocean about an hour after launch. A camera on buoy captured the fireworks. Credit: Space.com | footage courtesy SpaceX | edited by Steve Spaleta Biden ...

Apollo Instruments, a newcomer to the world of space-themed watches, has unveiled the DSKY Moonwatch — its grand project of four years that embodies the spirit of space exploration as well as ...

But Lovell is best remembered as commander of the Apollo 13 mission, where an oxygen tank exploded two days after the launch, depleting oxygen and power inside the command module odyssey.

Your doorbell today may have the same computing power as was on the Apollo spacecraft, but can it fly you to the moon? The following article was written by Tom Robinson, collectSPACE.com contributor.