CAPE KENNEDY -- America's first three Apollo astronauts died only 218 feet off the ground Friday night in a blazing explosion inside their space capsule atop its launch pad. An electrical spark ...
In October 1960, Low made the first official proposal that Apollo’s aim should be to land Americans on the moon. As NASA’s Washington-based chief of manned-space-flight programming, ...
Neil Armstrong was appreciative, but it was too late. The Apollo 11 crew had a design for the first moon landing. Armstrong's ...
Read more at http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/We-Have-Liftoff.html Photographer David Burnett focused his camera on the many tourists who flocked to ...
T his segment originally appeared in today's edition of the Morning Brief newsletter. Sign up here to get weekday updates from The Weather Channel and our meteorologists. I magine a rocket ...
The Apollo 5 mission tested the Lunar Module in space for the first time, which was crucial to the future manned missions to the moon. Also, on this date in 1992, Dr. Roberta Bondar became the ...
Is July 15 not set in stone? Was Bungie not ready to reveal the launch date for the next expansion, codename Apollo, which will kick off the game's next saga, codename Frontiers? I've reached out ...
He says America will send a manned mission to the moon ... Then they spot Launch Pad 34. That’s where their friends on the Apollo 1 mission burned to death during practice in 1967.