We explore the dramatic story of NASA's Apollo Program, beginning with President Kennedy's ambitious deadline for a lunar ...

Because of the pressure of the fire, and the fact that the spacecraft's hatch opened inward, there was no hope of escape. Investigation of the Apollo 1 Accident Extensive reviews followed the ...

And wonderfully, you can visit. The aptly named Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex is a full museum, with exhibits including a decommissioned Saturn V rocket, tons of memorabilia, and an actual ...

On 18 March 1965 Soviet cosmonaut Alexei Leonov became the first person to leave a space capsule and ... dying in 1967 in a launch-pad fire that consumed the Apollo 1 mission, the first crewed ...

This design was the reason the crew could not escape during the Apollo 1 fire. The Apollo 7 spacecraft included a Command and Service Module 101 (CSM-101), the first Block II CSM to be flown with ...

In November 1969, Apollo 12 astronauts Commander Charles "Pete" Conrad, Command Module Pilot (CMP) Richard F. Gordon, and ...

As remarkable as SpaceX’s Starship rocket catch was, it represents but a single step on a long path to the Moon for NASA, and on to Mars.

January 31: Explorer 1, the first American satellite ... January 27: A fire during routine testing of the Apollo spacecraft kills three astronauts -- Gus Grissom, Ed White and Roger Chafee ...

In the United States, commercial companies played a role in the aerospace industry right from the start: Since the 1960s, NASA has relied on private contractors to build spacecraft for every major ...

As if mirroring the 10 years of the Apollo era in a few short minutes, night turned to day as the fire from the Saturn V's powerful F-1 engines bathed Cape Canaveral with a glorious ethereal light.

Explore the technology, pride, and personalities that helped put a fire on the lunar surface ... That’s where their friends on the Apollo 1 mission burned to death during practice in 1967.