More than six decades ago, the United States launched its first satellite into Earth orbit, turning the dream of spaceflight into reality. Space tourism may be inching closer, but until off-planet ...
What if I told you a major U.S. Department of Defense component assumed responsibility for building a critical warfighting capability negligently disregarded this duty, and ultimately allowed this ...
James Lovell's spaceflight career included Gemini 7 (first rendezvous), Gemini 12 (final Gemini mission), Apollo 8 (first manned lunar orbit), and Apollo 13 (critically damaged mission returning ...
The Pentagon on Wednesday nominated Lt. Gen. Adrian Spain to lead Air Combat Command following Gen. Kenneth Wilsbach's retirement. If confirmed, Spain would be boss of the Air Force’s largest command ...
On March 28, 1963 NASA launched the first stage booster of its new Saturn 1 rocket on a fourth and final test flight. This uncrewed suborbital flight helped pave the way for astronauts to launch to ...
When a poem by Ada Limon, the U.S. poet laureate, was engraved in her own handwriting on a NASA spacecraft that began a 1.8 billion-mile, six-year journey in October 2024 to orbit Jupiter, it helped ...
On February 26, 1966, NASA launched its new Saturn IB rocket on its first test flight. Also known as the Uprated Saturn I, the Saturn IB was built for the Apollo program. With a more powerful upper ...
This rare, inscribed, and signed photo from a video transmission of Neil Armstrong’s “One giant leap for mankind” stepping on the moon is from the estate of long-time NASA engineer Clark C. McClelland ...
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How the Apollo Spacecraft works: Part 2
The journey to the moon and the successful landing on the lunar surface. One of the astronauts remained in orbit in the Command/Service Module (CSM), while the other two landed on the moon in the ...
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