Ken Mattingly, a significant figure in the Apollo program and Space Shuttle missions, passed away at age 87, leaving only eight surviving astronauts who orbited the Moon. His career included serving ...

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 ...

July 20 marked the 54th anniversary of the first time humans stepped foot on a celestial body other than Earth. Working for North American Aviation at the Space Division at Downey, California in the ...

On the road to the moon the mission of Apollo 9 stands as an important gateway in experience and procedures leading directly to the confidence gained to place a man on the moon less than a half a year ...