The first piloted Apollo flight – called Apollo 204, though it would later be known as Apollo 1 – was intended for tests in Earth orbit, part of the eventual path to later Apollo missions going to the ...
It took 43 days and a custom cage to bring the 4.5-tonne test command module from Washington to Castle Hill in Sydney's north ...
As part of our 150th birthday, the Orlando Sentinel will reprint articles from our archives as part of our Monday Memory feature. Here’s one from 59 years ago this week about the death of the Apollo 1 ...
Sheryl Chaffee remembers the January evening when astronaut Mike Collins came to the door and asked to speak with her mother. The two talked in a bedroom of the Chaffee home. Then Collins emerged and ...
When fire breaks out in the low-gravity, high-stakes conditions inside spacecraft or space stations, it behaves very differently than back here on Earth. So, as humans aim to set foot on Mars in the ...