Astronauts on the Apollo missions of the 1960s and '70s collected rocks ... It has fluctuated between 0.4% and 1% since the ...

After Apollo 1, the space program continued with a renewed ... a vastly improved spacecraft came out of it." Early Apollo Missions: Earth Orbit Apollo missions flew unmanned until October 11 ...

Below are other stand out missions that were a part of the Apollo program. The first test flight in the Apollo program ended ...

This mission was intended to immediately precede the ill-fated Apollo 1 mission, the AS-202 was unmanned, serving as a test of flight hardware, fuel cells, and the guidance and navigation control ...

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In 1967, a horrific fire broke out during a routine pre-launch test for the Apollo 1 mission at Cape Kennedy, Florida. It would claim the lives of three NASA astronauts Explore Subscribe ...

Apollo astronauts and engineers tell the inside story of Apollo 8 the first manned mission to the moon The US space program suffered a bitter setback when Apollo 1 ended in a deadly fire during a ...

Getty Images Missions by Soviet cosmonauts including ... The first crewed flight that was meant to test going into orbit was Apollo 1 in 1967. But disaster struck during a test, when fire swept ...

Apollo missions never flew during a full moon ... though in the moon’s 1/6th gravity, that provided what felt like a light, speedy ride. Here, Apollo XVI’s John Young leans seemingly jauntily ...

Then they spot Launch Pad 34. That’s where their friends on the Apollo 1 mission burned to death during practice in 1967. But there’s no turning back now. NASA center director Professor ...