A 60-year-old tribute to America's first human spaceflight program is standing up to the test of time, but what about 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 ...

And wonderfully, you can visit. The aptly named Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex is a full museum, with exhibits including a decommissioned Saturn V rocket, tons of memorabilia, and an actual ...

costs roughly $4.1 billion per launch — quadruple initial estimates — making it effectively unaffordable for future Artemis ...

Apollo 1 CrewApollo 1 astronauts "Gus" Grissom (left ... launch pad for a pre-launch test when a fire broke out in their capsule, killing all three astronauts. The investigation into the fatal ...

listen Apollo VII was the first test drive of the Apollo spacecraft, limited to Earth orbit ... though in the moon’s 1/6th gravity, that provided what felt like a light, speedy ride.

This mission was intended to immediately precede the ill-fated Apollo 1 mission, the AS-202 was unmanned ... the earlier Block I spacecraft, including the unmanned Apollo 4 and Apollo 6 missions ...

January: Luna 1 launches from the Soviet Union towards ... January 27: A fire during routine testing of the Apollo spacecraft kills three astronauts -- Gus Grissom, Ed White and Roger Chafee ...

This design was the reason the crew could not escape during the Apollo 1 fire. The Apollo 7 spacecraft included a Command and Service Module 101 (CSM-101), the first Block II CSM to be flown with ...

1. Saturn V is still the largest and ... Lunar Module and Command Module on flights to the Moon. Apollo 11's flight path took the spacecraft into Earth orbit 11 minutes after launch.

Samples collected from the surface of the moon by the crew of Apollo 16 more than 50 years ... the moon's history is locked in geological time capsules on its surface, untouched by plate tectonics ...

On 9, 1967, NASA launched the powerful new Saturn V rocket on its maiden voyage. The Saturn V was 363 feet tall. That's ...