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, ...

Live updates from Tuesday’s SpaceX Starlink 10-12 mission that launched a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral with a booster landing in the Bahamas.

The VSU Planetarium’s “Dawn of the Space Age” program will begin with a look at the February sky, including planets, stars, ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, FL -- On January 27, 1967, tragedy struck on the launch pad at Cape Kennedy's Launch Complex during a preflight test. The three astronauts scheduled to make the first Apollo space ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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.