We explore the dramatic story of NASA's Apollo Program, beginning with President Kennedy's ambitious deadline for a lunar ...

Apollo 7 laid the groundwork for a journey of orbiting ... with no significant anomalies during the boost phase. The Saturn IB rocket performed exceptionally well on its first crewed launch.

When Apollo 7’s giant Saturn IB rocket lumbered into space at 11:02 A.M. EDT on Oct. 11, 1968, the eyes of a half-million spectators and 600 accredited journalists crowding Cape Kennedy’s ...

The crew launched on October 22nd, 1968. Throughout the mission's 163 orbits over ten days and 20 hours, Apollo 7's crew put every vital life-support, communications, and navigational system on ...

Walter Cunningham, Apollo 7 astronaut, dies at 90. ... And before that Redstone rocket had cleared the tower, I heard myself yelling out loud” in profane excitement. That moment, ...

The new rocket is shorter and slimmer than the Saturn V rockets that hurled 24 Apollo astronauts to the moon a half-century ago. But it's mightier, packing 8.8 million pounds (4 million kilograms ...

The new rocket is shorter and slimmer than the Saturn V rockets that hurled 24 Apollo astronauts to the moon a half-century ago. But it’s mightier, packing 8.8 million pounds (4 million ...

Here’s a what to know about the first flight of the Artemis program, named after Apollo’s mythological twin sister. On Monday, the 322-foot rocket Artemis will attempt to send an empty crew capsule ...

Walter Cunningham, a civilian astronaut who helped reignite America’s push to the Moon following the tragic Apollo 1 fire, died on Tuesday (Jan. 3).He was 90 years old. The last surviving member of ...

Years late and billions over budget, NASA’s new moon rocket makes its debut next week in a high-stakes test flight before astronauts get on top. The 322-foot (98-meter) rocket will attempt to ...

and a bolt from one of their rocket engines, salvaged from the sea a decade ago. Aldrin isn’t attending the launch, according to NASA, but three of his former colleagues will be there: Apollo 7 ...