After Apollo 1, the space program continued with a renewed ... a vastly improved spacecraft came out of it." Early Apollo Missions: Earth Orbit Apollo missions flew unmanned until October 11 ...

This mission was intended to immediately precede the ill-fated Apollo 1 mission, the AS-202 was unmanned, serving as a test of flight hardware, fuel cells, and the guidance and navigation control ...

was the first Apollo mission with a human crew on board that went into space. After a cabin fire had killed the crew of Apollo 1, NASA had not sent astronauts to space for nearly two years.

Below are other stand out missions that were a part of the Apollo program. The first test flight in the Apollo program ended ...

In 1967, a horrific fire broke out during a routine pre-launch test for the Apollo 1 mission at Cape Kennedy, Florida. It would claim the lives of three NASA astronauts Explore Subscribe ...

Apollo astronauts and engineers tell the inside story of Apollo 8 the first manned mission to the moon The US space program suffered a bitter setback when Apollo 1 ended in a deadly fire during a ...

Getty Images Missions by Soviet cosmonauts including ... The first crewed flight that was meant to test going into orbit was Apollo 1 in 1967. But disaster struck during a test, when fire swept ...

NASA's Artemis 2 mission is returning astronauts to the moon for the first time since 1972. See live mission updates here.

On 9, 1967, NASA launched the powerful new Saturn V rocket on its maiden voyage. The Saturn V was 363 feet tall. That's ...

Apollo missions never flew during a full moon ... though in the moon’s 1/6th gravity, that provided what felt like a light, speedy ride. Here, Apollo XVI’s John Young leans seemingly jauntily ...