Apollo 14 lifted off from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in 1971 on the first crewed mission to the Moon's highlands.

The Hippodrome Theater in Alton, once a hub for vaudeville and films, opened in 1912 and was demolished in 1933.

Englishman Guy Fawkes, convicted of high treason for his part in the “Gunpowder Plot,” was set to be hanged, drawn and quartered, but broke his neck after falling ...

On Jan. 31, 2020, the United States declared a public health emergency over the new coronavirus, and President Donald Trump ...

When Ham set off on his space flight in 1961, he paved the way for the first American to go to space months later.

Apollo 14, the third U.S. mission to land on the moon, blasted off using a Saturn V rocket from Kennedy Space Center in ...

Three months before the Apollo 11 mission, the astronaut was asked how he would respond to 'extraterrestrial life on the moon ...

Just past 2 a.m. Eastern time on Jan. 16, 2025, a new rocket blasted off from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in ...

Depending on weather and cloud cover, rocket launches from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center or Cape Canaveral, Florida, can be ...

New Shepard, which launched in 2015, is named after Alan Shepard, the first American to reach space. New Shepard is not powerful enough to reach orbit. Instead, it flies a suborbital trajectory.

Zero-gravity cuisine has come a long way since humans first stepped on the moon. But Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin probably enjoyed this last meal more.