Donn Eisele and Walt Cunningham orbited the earth for ten days in an Apollo command-service module. Apollo 8: Lunar Orbit With the Lunar Module still in process and reports of Soviet advances in ...

The journey to the moon and the successful landing on the lunar surface. One of the astronauts remained in orbit in the ...

One year later, Apollo 13 bound for the Moon suffered a major service module explosion, shortening the life of the command module support systems to only a few hours. All three astronauts climbed ...

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 ...

It has been 54 years since NASA landed astronauts on the Moon for the third time. On February 5, 1971, astronauts Alan ...

But the real horror came when rescuers reached Apollo 1, five minutes after Chaffee’s initial shout. The command module, dimly lit by flickering flashlights, was a scene of devastation.

Where the astronauts sat in the Apollo Lunar Module may have profoundly impacted the way the experience of walking on the ...

The three astronauts scheduled to make the first Apollo space flight were killed when a fire swept through the command module. Astronauts Virgil Grissom, Edward White and Roger Chaffee were all ...