Jan. 27 is a dark day in the world of space exploration. It’s the anniversary of the Apollo 1 fire that killed three NASA ...
The United States walked away from the Moon just as it seemed to master it, then spent decades sketching ever more ambitious paths to Mars that never quite left the drawing board. The shift was not a ...
On Jan. 22, 1968, NASA launched Apollo 5, marking the first time the Apollo Lunar Module flew in space and a critical step toward landing astronauts on the Moon.
LIBERTY — The historic late 1972 launch of the Apollo 17 mission to the moon represented more than a space expedition to merely collect rock samples from the lunar landscape while making history: It ...
CHICAGO (AP) — James Lovell, the commander of Apollo 13 who helped turn a failed moon mission into a triumph of on-the-fly can-do engineering, has died. He was 97. Lovell died Thursday in Lake Forest, ...
CHICAGO (AP) — James Lovell, the commander of Apollo 13 who helped turn a failed moon mission into a triumph of on-the-fly can-do engineering, has died. He was 97. Lovell died Thursday in Lake Forest, ...
Capt. James A. Lovell, Jr., attends the 45th Anniversary of Apollo 8 ‘Christmas Eve Broadcast to Earth’ event at the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago on Dec. 23, 2013. AP File Photo Apollo 13 ...