Lunar coordinates and messages on the walls inside the Apollo 11, the spacecraft that took the first manned mission to the moon in 1969, can now be seen closely. Officials at the Smithsonian’s ...

indicating increased oxygen flow in their space suits. Other sensors detected a brief power surge. Then came the first call from inside Apollo 1. It was Chaffee’s voice. And it was just one word ...

On January 27, 1967, three Apollo astronauts were killed during a routine preflight rehearsal at NASA's Kennedy Space Center. The Apollo 1 fire was the first major deadly disaster in the history of ...

On January 27, 1967, during a practice launch countdown, a flash fire erupted inside the sealed cockpit ... tragedy waiting to happen. After Apollo 1, the space program continued with a renewed ...

Prior to venturing outside, the crew began slowly lowering the pressure inside the spacecraft to become accustomed ... any human has ventured since NASA's Apollo missions half a century ago.

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 ...

Physically, the men were all superficially similar, all about five feet nine inches tall (plus or minus two inches) to fit inside ... that spacecraft led to the change in Apollo 8's mission.

Aldrin is still planting flags 56 years after he did so on the moon, only now it is in a commercial asking "Can you text me ...

In order to take photographs of the far side of the moon the Apollo spacecraft had been rolled so that its windows pointed towards the lunar surface. During this time, the Moon was between the ...

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 ...

Seventeen astronauts were lost in the Apollo 1 fire and the Challenger and Columbia space shuttle disasters ... Edward White and Roger Chaffee sit inside a practice module at Cape Kennedy in ...