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

The three-man crew of the first Apollo test flight-- commander Virgil “Gus” Grissom, Ed White and Roger Chaffee -- strapped into the cockpit of their spacecraft on Jan. 27, 1967 -- 50 years ...

The so-called "right stuff" manifests rather differently in "Apollo 13". Sure, this generation of astronauts knows the final ...

The Apollo-Soyuz Test Project brought Soviet cosmonauts and NASA astronauts together in the first international human ...

NBC News' Jay Barbree focuses on the darkest hour for NASA's moon effort — the Apollo 1 fire of 1967 — in an excerpt from "Moon Shot: The Inside Story of America's Apollo Moon Landings." ...

Before the fire, NASA had planned to fly an Apollo 2 mission that would test the Lunar Module in low-Earth orbit, then launch a crew aboard the Saturn V rocket for the first time with Apollo 3.

The Apollo 11 command module Columbia, seen at the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in 2016, is returning to the National Air and Space Museum's Virginia annex for a year-long display beginning on ...

A relic from America's first space tragedy is finally going on display this week, 50 years after a fire on the launch pad killed three astronauts at the start of the Apollo moon program.

As the years and decades rolled by, Apollo 1 became a mere footnote in space history. Chaffee’s daughter, Sheryl, who retired last month after working at Kennedy for 33 years, recalls having to ...