When the first Apollo mission to carry astronauts to orbit launched on October 11, 1968, everyone at NASA sighed in relief. Apollo 7 rose on a pillar of flame from Kennedy Space Center’s Pad 34 on ...

On April 4, 1968, NASA launched the final uncrewed test flight of its Saturn V rocket. The Apollo 6 mission demonstrated that the Saturn V rocket and the Apollo spacecraft were ready to send ...

This video chronicles the journey to the moon, focusing on the Apollo 11 mission, which remains the only human expedition beyond low Earth orbit. It details the separation of the Lunar Module (LM) ...

The world lost a true hero Aug. 7, when astronaut and space pioneer Jim Lovell passed away at age 97. The first person to fly in space four times, Lovell helped pave the way for the first Moon landing ...

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The spacesuit worn by the first Briton in space, the Russian capsule that brought Britain's first professional astronaut back to Earth, and the only flown-to-the-moon Apollo command module to be on ...

The former Apollo 8 astronaut best known for taking the iconic “Earthrise” photo, who died last month while piloting a plane over the waters off Washington state, was doing a flyby near a friend’s ...

William Anders, an astronaut who was one of the first three people to orbit the moon, and who took the famous “Earthrise” photo, died Friday after a small plane he was in crashed in the water north of ...

The astronaut Ken Mattingly, who has died aged 87, was probably more famous for his role in the saga of Apollo 13 – the ill-fated 1970 lunar mission, from which he was removed three days before launch ...

Last week’s passing of Ken Mattingly, aged 87, reduces the number of men still alive to tell tales of orbiting the Moon to eight. An intrepid lunar voyager and space shuttle commander, Mattingly was ...

He later orbited the moon, but in 1970 he was scrubbed from the Apollo flight after being exposed to German measles. Then, from mission control, he helped it avert disaster. By Richard Goldstein Ken ...