The Apollo spacecraft is a complex transportation system designed for lunar missions, standing 363 feet tall and weighing over 6 million pounds at launch. It consists of three main components: the ...
Gus Grissom, Ed White and Roger Chaffee had been selected as the crew for Apollo 1, the first flight of the next generation of spacecraft succeeding the Gemini program. On January 27, 1967 ...
The last time humans set foot on the Moon was 19 December 1972, during the Apollo 17 mission. "The Apollo missions were hugely successful," explained Dr Barber. "But they were 'touch and go ...
The Apollo moon program resulted in a legacy of thousands of images - all of them of immense value as both scientific and documentary records. Yet 30 years after the event most of them speak only ...
The Artemis mission is expected to land the first woman and first person of color on the moon. Along with re-examining the historic Apollo 11 mission on Monday, NASA's Michoud Assembly Facility in ...