The Apollo program is a constant ... The Alignment Optical Telescope. The telescope was used to find the position of the Lunar Module in space so that its guidance computer could do the ...

George R. Carruthers, an astrophysicist and engineer was the principal designer of a telescope that went to the moon as part ...

Apollo 1’s crew knew their ship could never reach the Moon. It was never meant to. The barebones ‘Block 1’ spacecraft, intended only for Earth-orbital tests, had none of the navigational ...

Fifty years ago today, Apollo 15 mission ... fender to save the mission. Using four of the 28 geological maps, duct tape, and two clamps from the optical alignment telescope, the astronauts ...

"We think every dense, dusty region that we see, and most of the ones we don't see, look like this on the inside — we just have never been able to look inside them before." ...

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 ...