Until September 1970, NASA planned manned moon missions through Apollo 19. Priorities were shifting, however, both in the United States as a whole and within NASA. Beyond Apollo blogger David S. F ...

The mission was also Tom Stafford's last spaceflight. The Apollo Command Module Pilot, Vance Brand, would go on to fly on ...

1981: Five technicians are asphyxiated while setting up a ground test for the space shuttle Columbia, then in preparation for STS-1, the first operational shuttle mission. Two of them die. The ...

NASA’s most tragic events happened 55 years ago, 36 years ago and 19 years ago with the deaths of 17 men and women in the Apollo 1 fire, Space Shuttle Challenger explosion on liftoff and Space ...

Apollo Space Shuttle Looks Like Just Half a Spaceship, Could Still Have Reached the Moon. Published: 5 Jan 2023, 12:23 UTC • By: Daniel Patrascu. 15 photos. Photo: Hazegrayart.

Apollo 16 astronaut Charlie Duke, left, and space shuttle veteran Nicole Stott speak during a ceremony at Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex on Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2025.

This Ambitious Space Shuttle Concept Was a Post-Apollo Pipe Dream We Never Got The Space Shuttle was cool. But you should see one of the design concepts that preceded it.

As for the astronauts, Haise was assigned to command the Apollo 19 moon mission. However, it and two other missions were canceled after NASA's budget was cut. He later piloted the space shuttle ...

Fifty-five years ago Saturday, humanity made its first visit to the lunar surface with Apollo 11.Lifting off atop the gigantic Saturn V rocket on July 16, 1969, the Apollo 11 mission forever ...

Astronaut Thomas K. Mattingly, a rear admiral who flew on Apollo 16 and two space shuttle missions, died Tuesday, according to a NASA news release.