Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NASA's first lunar campaign in five decades since the Apollo era came to an end should be a little more technologically advanced than its 1960s-70s counterpart. The U.S. space agency has ...

Space missions can succeed or fail from the support they get from mission control. Here, we look at the changing shape of Nasa's most important room in space.

Imagine monitoring a robot working more than 200,000 miles away on the lunar surface — a stressful job, and one that requires operators to be on the ball at all times while in small control room for hours on end. For a future robotic moon mission known ...

In high-stakes roles, NASA launch and mission control teams on the ground will keep the Artemis II astronauts safely on track during a 10-day journey around the moon.

The next-generation Orion spacecraft, which will take astronauts to the Moon for the first time in over 60 years, is so full of new tech that NASA reportedly needed a new control room just to manage it. The new Mission Evaluation Room will allow in-depth ...

HOUSTON (AP) — Plans to restore the NASA mission control room that served as the nerve center for the Apollo missions, when man first reached the moon, have been discussed for more than 20 years, but its restoration and preservation remain in limbo with ...