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Though NASA expected their complicated machines would not always work right, the first deaths in the space program still came as a shock -- because the fatal mishap occurred on the ground. Gus Grissom ...

On February 26, 1966, NASA launched its new Saturn IB rocket on its first test flight. Also known as the Uprated Saturn I, the Saturn IB was built for the Apollo program. With a more powerful upper ...

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Fifty years ago today, three American astronauts died in a sudden, uncontrollable cabin fire aboard the Apollo I space capsule. The deaths of Virgil "Gus" Grissom, Ed White, and Roger Chaffee could ...

Apollo 11 astronaut Major General Michael Collins (USAF (Retired)) has died at the age of 90 after a battle with cancer. In 1969, Collins was the Command Module Pilot for the first crewed lunar ...

Scientists at the European Space Agency are using a powerful new simulator to relive the Apollo 15 mission in excruciating detail. By revisiting this and other missions, the researchers are seeing old ...

Apollo 14 isn’t a mission that jumps to the fore of most peoples’ minds. It didn’t break ground like Apollo 11, which landed the first humans on the moon. And it didn’t cause the stir of Apollo 13, a ...

Saturday, July 20, marked the 50th anniversary of humankind's first steps upon another world. While we have not yet sent humans back to the moon and beyond, our computer technology has advanced to the ...

On July 20, 1969, a 10-year old boy was sitting in his pajamas in front of the flickering screen of a black and white Pye television set, where he would sit until well into the early hours of the ...