A 60-year-old tribute to America's first human spaceflight program is standing up to the test of time, but what about the ...

On January 27, 1967, during a practice launch countdown, a flash fire erupted inside ... the spacecraft's hatch opened inward, there was no hope of escape. Investigation of the Apollo 1 Accident ...

lost their lives inside the 'Block 1' spacecraft, designed only for Earth-orbital tests. Their last words deeply affected ...

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

It has fluctuated between 0.4% and 1% since the 1970s ... their suits and vehicles and even got inside their spacecraft.

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.

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

Starliner has an Apollo-like design with conical ... the heatshield covering the base of the capsule is exposed to temperatures of up to 1,650C (3,000F). The shield is made from an "ablative ...

On 16 July 1969, astronauts Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins were strapped into their Apollo spacecraft on top ... the history-making mission. 1. Saturn V is still the largest ...

from stress and high temperatures inside the capsule. The American press nicknames the second Soviet satellite "Muttnik" because of its biological payload. January 31: Explorer 1, the first ...

The lunar lander called Odysseus or IM-1 ... on the spacecraft must be created to withstand the harsh environment of outer ...

“Apollo 12, Houston. Try SCE to Auxiliary. Over.” For clarification, the SCE was the Signal Conditioning Equipment, a piece of equipment inside the spacecraft that essentially brought together ...