Though NASA expected their complicated machines would ... using the Lunar Module as a lifeboat of sorts. By that time, Apollo 20 had already been cancelled for budgetary reasons.

Those Apollo-era layoffs at NASA occurred “when we were winding down a moon program,” Planetary Society chief of space policy Casey Dreier told CNN. “But we’re actively spinning one up ...

By the end of Nixon's administration in 1974, NASA's budget had plummeted from 4% of the federal budget to less than 1%. Fully-funded Apollo missions 18 and 19 were abandoned along with Apollo 20.

Following is the transcript of the video. Narrator: NASA has released photos, videos, and audio recordings of its Apollo missions. Audio clip: We copy you down, Eagle. Narrator: So there's little ...

NASA's most remarkable achievements include launching Explorer 1 in 1958, the 1969 Apollo 11 moon landing, and the Hubble ...