Dec. 11 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1816, Indiana joined the United States as its 19th state. In 1936, Britain's King Edward VIII abdicated to marry American divorcee Wallis Warfield Simpson.

As for Ireland's piece of the Apollo 17 goodwill moon rock, it was initially placed on display in the drawing room of Aras an Uachtarain, the official residence and principal workplace of the ...

Ron Evans and Harrison Schmitt of Apollo 17 traveled ever farther and collected more moon rocks on their missions. Apollo 13: Lunar Module Turned Lifeboat In April 1970, an explosion in an oxygen ...

Q: When I was a child in the early ‘70s, I lived in Florida and watched a show called “Big Blue Marble,” where they would go ...

Free timed-entry passes are required for the Museum in DC. This cover belongs to an Oxygen Purge System used during the Apollo 17 mission that occurred in December 1972. The PLSS was used for water ...

Free timed-entry passes are required for the Museum in DC. This parachute is one of the three main parachutes deployed to safely "land" the Apollo 17 Command Module after its successful December 1972 ...