In 1972, Apollo 16 astronaut and moon walker Charlie Duke left a family photo on the lunar surface. Today that photo is long gone. But Duke’s visage is heading back to the moon this week ...

Though NASA expected their complicated machines would not always work right, the first deaths in the space program still came as a shock -- because the fatal mishap occurred on the ground.

He landed on the moon with Apollo 16 in 1972, a year after his fellow Farragut alumni Alan Shepard made his own historic trip. Shepard, the first American in space back in 1961, was the oldest ...