This is the dramatic story of NASA's Apollo Program, beginning with President Kennedy's ambitious deadline for a lunar landing by the end of the decade, in response to Soviet success with Sputnik and ...

Early Apollo Missions: Earth Orbit Apollo missions flew unmanned until October 11, 1968, when Wally Schirra, Donn Eisele and Walt Cunningham orbited the earth for ten days in an Apollo command ...

The Apollo 11 mission was a huge moment in US and world ... The plan was to first launch all the necessary hardware into Earth's orbit before striking out for the Moon. Armstrong and Aldrin ...

For all of us must work to put him there ... That would happen during the successive one-man missions of Project Mercury. But the Apollo project required a number of more advanced achievements ...

All in all, Snoopy was only separated from Charlie Brown for eight hours and they were never more than 340 miles apart. And although at mission’s end, Apollo 10 appeared to be a spectacular ...

Two companies will attempt the first U.S. moon landings since the Apollo missions five-plus decades ago Two private companies are hustling to get the U.S. back in the game, more than five decades ...