On August 25th, 1966, an Apollo Command Module was launched aboard a Saturn IB rocket in mission AS-202. This mission was intended to immediately precede the ill-fated Apollo 1 mission ...
John Young piloted the command module. Cosmonaut Alexei Leonov remembered the Soviet reaction to Apollo 10: "We used to joke that Stafford, rather than just doing a maneuver, could have changed ...
Where the astronauts sat in the Apollo Lunar Module may have profoundly impacted the way the experience of walking on the ...
NASA's requested funding was spent on the Great Society, including building rapid transit system in several cities ...
Apollo 11. On July 20, 1969, astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed in the Lunar Module Eagle and became the first humans to step foot on the lunar surface while astronaut Michael Collins ...
But the real horror came when rescuers reached Apollo 1, five minutes after Chaffee’s initial shout. The command module, dimly lit by flickering flashlights, was a scene of devastation.
the Lunar Module ascent stage with Astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin Jr. approaches for a rendezvous with the Apollo Command Module manned by Michael Collins, during the Apollo 11 mission ...
A half-century after Apollo 11's Eagle lander kissed the Sea ... the astronauts dubbed the command module Charlie Brown and the lunar module Snoopy. As it happened, some four days into the mission ...
The three astronauts scheduled to make the first Apollo space flight were killed when a fire swept through the command module. Astronauts Virgil Grissom, Edward White and Roger Chaffee were all ...