STORY: The metal structures that for more than three centuries had been supporting the fountain – consisting of 13 statues and weighing 33 tons – had rusted and warped, leaving the fountain in need of ...

New excavations at the ancient thermal baths of San Casciano dei Bagni in Tuscany, Italy have yielded a life-sized, well-preserved statue of the mythical figure Apollo Sauroktonos—the latest discovery ...

Fifty-one years to the day after they survived an explosion on the way to the moon, astronauts Jim Lovell and Fred Haise came face-to-face with their post-splashdown selves in Houston. The two Apollo ...

HOUSTON – Space Center Houston is honoring the dedication of the Apollo 13 crew and the flight controllers in Mission Control at NASA Johnson Space Center who worked around the clock to ensure the ...

HOUSTON, Texas -- For a few hours on a cloudy Saturday, April 17, titans walked among mere mortals at Space Center Houston. Fifty-one years to the day of their historic splashdown, Apollo 13 NASA ...

Documentary filmmaker Steven C. Barber has been on a commemorative space mission the last few years spearheading an effort to create statues for Apollo 11 at Kennedy Space Center and Apollo 13 in ...

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One small step for man, one giant leap for man's fries. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A new statue of an Apollo astronaut now ...

BILOXI, Miss. (AP) — A city on the Mississippi Gulf Coast has unveiled a statute to honor an Apollo 13 astronaut who grew up there. The Sun Herald reported a crowd turned out Sunday in Biloxi to cheer ...

Pier Jacopo Alari Bonacolsi’s Apollo Belvedere has been donated to Cambridge’s Fitzwilliam Museum in lieu of a £10.5 million ($13.1 million) inheritance tax bill. The rare parcel-gilt bronze with ...

On Tuesday, the restoration of one of the Vatican Museums‘ most prized artworks was unveiled. The Apollo Belvedere is a marble sculpture of the eponymous Greek god dating back to the 2nd century CE.