"Thanks for all your effort," wrote the first moonwalker. Neil Armstrong was appreciative, but as explained in his ...

The Apollo 11 astronauts used advanced technology ... powerful to break from the Earth's orbit and blast off into space, sending a spacecraft 250,000 miles to reach the Moon.

Apollo 10 successfully launched from LC-39B at the Kennedy Space Center two days ago ... s radar and guidance systems, the Apollo 11 rocket and spacecraft will complete just under two months ...

The successful Apollo 11 mission delivered two American astronauts ... humans on the moon in July 1969 was the climax of a 'space race' with the Soviet Union. Earlier in the 1960s, the two ...

Featuring space-themed images and stamps ... The Eagle has landed.’ Charlie Duke is Apollo 11’s capsule communicator at Mission Control – CAPCOM, for short. It’s his job to to pass ...

CAPE KENNEDY -- America's first three Apollo astronauts died only 218 feet off the ground Friday night in a blazing explosion inside their space capsule atop its launch pad. An electrical spark ...

Gemini 8 was launched on March 16, 1966, and Armstrong performed the first successful docking of two vehicles in space. As spacecraft commander for Apollo 11, the first crewed lunar landing mission, ...

After Apollo 1, the space program ... a vastly improved spacecraft came out of it." Early Apollo Missions: Earth Orbit Apollo missions flew unmanned until October 11, 1968, when Wally Schirra ...

I don’t like it.” On the afternoon of Jan. 27, clad in their space suits, the crew boarded the Apollo 1 capsule, perched high atop the Saturn IB. Grissom noticed a strange odor, like soured ...