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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

(CNN) — A spacecraft left behind by US astronauts ... activity on the moon for the first time through an analysis of Apollo-era data using modern algorithms. Massive temperature swings that ...

During the International Astronautical Congress, Axiom revealed the flight design of ... NASA tasked Axiom Space with developing the first moonwalking spacesuits since the Apollo missions, which ...