The Apollo 7 was the Apollo Program's first successful spacecraft, with its crew of Commander Walter M. Schirra, Command Module Pilot Donn F.Eisele, and R. Walter Cunningham. Each of these ...

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

Apollo 7 rebooted the Apollo program after a fire killed three astronauts during a launch rehearsal 20 months earlier. NASA needed to prove that their Apollo spacecraft worked with this mission ...

It's really expensive to get to the moon — but not that expensive By contrast, the US defense budget for 2024 is about $883.7 ...

However, the US lunar program is delayed, in part because the spacesuits and lunar-landing vehicle are not ready. Meanwhile, ...

September 14: The Soviet Union sends Zond 5 around the moon and back to Earth in an unmanned test of their circumlunar spacecraft. October 11-12: After extensive redesign work, Apollo 7 ...

Min Read Lunar module pilot Walter Cunningham writes with a space pen as he performs flight tasks on the ninth day of the ...

Saturn V weighed 2,800 tonnes and generated 34.5m Newtons (7.7m pounds ... Command Module on flights to the Moon. Apollo 11's flight path took the spacecraft into Earth orbit 11 minutes after ...

Frank Borman, commander of Apollo 8, wrote in his autobiography, "The NASA of more recent years got the idea that you could put almost any highly intelligent person into a spacecraft and qualify ...

Samples collected from the surface of the moon by the crew of Apollo 16 more than 50 years ... the moon's history is locked in geological time capsules on its surface, untouched by plate tectonics ...

Lopata threw for 290 yards and four touchdowns – although he was intercepted three times – two weeks ago in a 42-7 win against San ... 8 TDs) and Apollo Periera (389 yards, 5 TDs) are his ...