Today marks exactly 45 years since the crew of Apollo 13 made it safely back to earth after their craft was damaged on the way to the moon. A gas explosion caused by exposed wires blew a hole in the ...

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. Gus Grissom ...

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On February 26, 1966, NASA launched its new Saturn IB rocket on its first test flight. Also known as the Uprated Saturn I, the Saturn IB was built for the Apollo program. With a more powerful upper ...

Uses a liquid oxygen/liquid hydrogen propulsion system. Needed to leave Earth's orbit, and is discarded once the crew are on their way to the moon. This will launch separately from the crew in a heavy ...

Fifty years ago today, three American astronauts died in a sudden, uncontrollable cabin fire aboard the Apollo I space capsule. The deaths of Virgil "Gus" Grissom, Ed White, and Roger Chaffee could ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. To protect the Apollo Command Module ...

The flight controls used by Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin during the Apollo 11 mission to the Moon have gone up for auction in America, where they are expected to fetch up to £160,000 ($200,000) each ...

Today marks the 45th anniversary of the launch of Nasa's historic moon mission on 16 July 1969. Changing the course of human history, astronauts Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin ...

Apollo 9 mission played a crucial role in NASA's lunar landing goal, testing essential spacecraft functions in Earth's orbit. Apollo 9 launched 50 years ago, on March 3, 1969, and it might be the most ...

NASA astronauts John Young, Charles Duke and Thomas Mattingly landed on the moon 50 years ago today, and to mark the anniversary, iconic images from the penultimate lunar landing have been remastered.