In November 1969, Apollo 12 astronauts Commander Charles "Pete" Conrad, Command Module Pilot (CMP) Richard F. Gordon, and ...
The fine powder that sits on the moon's surface stuck to their suits and vehicles and even got inside their spacecraft. Peggy ...
On November 14, 1969, the Apollo 12 mission launched to the moon. This was the second moon landing of the Apollo program. The ...
On January 27, 1967, during a practice launch countdown, a flash fire erupted inside the sealed cockpit ... tragedy waiting to happen. After Apollo 1, the space program continued with a renewed ...
There was a fire on the launchpad during the test that resulted in the deaths of all three astronauts inside. The program was put on hold due to the accident. Apollo 7 was the first mission since ...
The National Air and Space Museum holds approximately 17,000 space ... the lunar surface while astronaut Michael Collins orbited above inside the Command Module, Columbia. A selection of Apollo 11 ...
On November 9, 1967, NASA launched the powerful new Saturn V rocket on its maiden voyage. The Saturn V was 363 feet tall.
The four-person crew splashed down inside SpaceX's Crew Dragon Endeavour ... after splashing down at the end of the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project mission in 1975. The astronauts suffered lung ...
[Inside the rockets that NASA and SpaceX plan ... The splashdown in the Pacific Ocean occurred 50 years to the day of the Apollo 17 mission touching down on the lunar surface and symbolized ...
The personal GMT-Master chronometer worn by NASA astronaut Edgar Mitchell as lunar module pilot on the 1971 Apollo 14 mission sold for $2.2 million (or to be precise, $2,163,199) on Thursday (Oct ...
He flew on two Gemini missions, two Apollo missions, one with a landing on the moon ... Other astronauts have at least been inside at least four spacecraft in space, as they either are assigned duties ...