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As 'Apollo 13' turns 30, we talk to legendary NASA flight director Gerry Griffin who helped make the film as realistic as possible.
Ron Howard's classic celebrates the mission control geniuses who got the astronauts home.
The latest was a static fire test, in which the engines are turned on but the spacecraft stays attached to the ground, but it exploded as preparations were being made.
Before heading to his designated seat inside the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft attached at the top of the two-stage Falcon 9 launcher, Shukla listened to his favourite song, ‘Vande Mataram’, from ...
NASA issued this Omega Speedmaster chronograph to astronaut Neil Armstrong for use during the Apollo 11 mission of July 1969. Selected after a series of rigorous tests demonstrated its high level of ...