Latest Headlines
  • Apollo 13

    Apollo 13

    Apollo 13′s amazing adventure is now more famous for the movie than the event. But when an explosion canceled this moonlanding in 1970, millions were transfixed as Lovell, Haise and Swigert barely limped home.

    Read More

  • Apollo 14

    Apollo 14

    Commanded by the first American in space, Alan Shepard, Apollo 14 demonstrated that America could come back from the near-tragedy or Apollo 13. It is now on display back at the Kennedy Space Center—where it left for the moon decades ago.

    Read More

  • Apollo 15

    Apollo 15

    The Apollo 15 mission was the first landing into the lunar highlands. Dave Scott and Jim Irwin road the first lunar rover. Al Worden performed the first “deep space” EVA at a distance of 200,000 miles from earth.

    Read More

  • Apollo 16

    Apollo 16

    Not a lot of “firsts”; Apollo 16 was just another moonlanding! John Young and Charlie Duke rode the rover across the Descartes Plains and brought back the biggest moon rock of the Apollo program.

    Read More

  • Apollo 17

    Apollo 17

    For the final Apollo moonlanding, Gene Cernan and Harrision Schmidt lived on the lunar surface for three days. They commuted to work in the rover, driving across a rugged landscape. The moon is still waiting for its next human visitor.

    Read More

  • A deadly re-entry

    A deadly re-entry

    As Boris Volnyov watched the flames lapping at the blunt nose of his Soyuz spacecraft, he felt certain that death was near. With his heat shield out of position, the 5,000 degree heat outside would soon consume him. He could already smell the burning of the rubber seals which held the spacecraft’s hatch in place. [...]

    Read More

Page 6 of 6« First...23456