On August 25th, 1966, an Apollo Command Module was launched aboard a Saturn IB rocket in mission AS-202. This mission was intended to immediately precede the ill-fated Apollo 1 mission ...
The last astronauts to lift off from the Air Force side were the Apollo 7 crew on a Saturn IB from LC-34 in October 1968. The Moon landing challenge immediately confronted NASA, however ...
Three Apollo I astronauts Rogers Chaffee, Edward White and Gus Grissom die due to a flash fire at a grounded space capsule in Cape Canaveral, [...] ...
On May 14, 1973, the final Saturn V rocket lifted off to deploy Skylab, America’s first space station. Despite a troubled start to its life, Skylab pioneered long-duration spaceflight, and fifty ...