When astronaut Neil Armstrong passed away on Aug. 25, 2012, I wrote an opinion piece about my years of wooing him for an interview. I stayed up all night to get the column ready for publication early ...

For most people, going to the Moon or even just to space would be a dream come true. But one Apollo astronaut has offered a rather different perspective on his journey into the great unknown. The rest ...

ALEXANDRIA, Va. — In the course of explaining how he helped save the crew of Apollo 13, Ken Mattingly mentions, as an aside, that “in the process of going through all this [power-up procedures for the ...