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 ...

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

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 ...

In November 1969, Apollo 12 astronauts Commander Charles "Pete" Conrad, Command Module Pilot (CMP) Richard F. Gordon, and ...

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The Proba-3 mission consists of two spacecraft that will fly in close formation to study the sun, with the shadow of one ...

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 ...

On November 14, 1969, the Apollo 12 mission launched to the moon. This was the second moon landing of the Apollo program. The ...

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 ...

The magnitude” of Tesla stock’s near 40% rally from Election Day through Monday “surprised us,” wrote Deutsche Bank analyst Edison Yu.