From the high ground of space ... up as the sun warmed the spacecraft skin. The public saw only the pretty pictures shot through clear windows, but here the Apollo 12 crew took a shot to show ...

CAPE KENNEDY -- America's first three Apollo astronauts died only 218 feet off the ground Friday night in a blazing explosion inside their space capsule atop its launch pad. An electrical spark ...

NASA’s Europa Clipper is well on its way to Jupiter’s icy moon, Europa, set to arrive in 2030. While its science instruments ...

if we hadn't done the engineering and changed the capsule, we might have had a catastrophic event in space. So I would argue that the Apollo fire was an important plus. Of course, how can you say ...

I don’t like it.” On the afternoon of Jan. 27, clad in their space suits, the crew boarded the Apollo 1 capsule, perched high atop the Saturn IB. Grissom noticed a strange odor, like soured ...

November 3: Sputnik 2 carries Laika, a female dog, into space. Although the satellite ... January 27: A fire during routine testing of the Apollo spacecraft kills three astronauts -- Gus Grissom ...