NASA changed Apollo's hatch to an outward-opening design, and that same choice persists today in Orion. "It's the minimum entry — if you want to deal with carrying humans to space, you need to ...

During Apollo 13, the spidery spacecraft's engine was fired multiple ... Dunne recalled that one early design for the lunar module looked like "two balls on top of each other," which included ...

The design was equal parts simplicity ... they thought the buglike spacecraft looked more gangly than flight-worthy. The crew of Apollo 9 even gave their LM the call sign Spider when it flew ...

Though MSC was on the move throughout the MODAP study and busy with Apollo moon program preparations, its engineers had already found time to design the 24-man space station to which the MODAP CSM ...

For someone who had worked on so many components of the mission, from the design of the 39A launch complex, to the rocket itself, to the lunar rover, to the Apollo spacecraft, watching the Apollo ...

Apollo 10 “dress rehearsal” mission launched into space to set up the Apollo 11 moon landing mission a month later.

He too hated the Block 1 design. “If you get the slightest ... On the afternoon of Jan. 27, clad in their space suits, the crew boarded the Apollo 1 capsule, perched high atop the Saturn IB.

The computer interface of NASA's 1960s Apollo spacecraft is meticulously replicated ... calculator-like design that gave astronauts without extensive computing know-how a straightforward way ...

NASA changed Apollo's hatch to an outward-opening design, and that same choice persists today in Orion. "It's the minimum entry — if you want to deal with carrying humans to space, you need to ...