From the high ground of space ... up as the sun warmed the spacecraft skin. The public saw only the pretty pictures shot through clear windows, but here the Apollo 12 crew took a shot to show ...

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 ...

The first manned mission to the moon, Apollo 11, launched on July 16 ... will take them to the rocket for launch at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, on July 16, 1969.

NASA’s Europa Clipper is well on its way to Jupiter’s icy moon, Europa, set to arrive in 2030. While its science instruments ...

if we hadn't done the engineering and changed the capsule, we might have had a catastrophic event in space. So I would argue that the Apollo fire was an important plus. Of course, how can you say ...

I don’t like it.” On the afternoon of Jan. 27, clad in their space suits, the crew boarded the Apollo 1 capsule, perched high atop the Saturn IB. Grissom noticed a strange odor, like soured ...

Polaris Dawn's Dragon will also soar higher than any crewed spacecraft since the Apollo missions ... ahead of 1st-ever private spacewalk mission (photos, video) Polaris Dawn's spacewalk will ...