The crew of four will launch in a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket no earlier than 2:31 a.m. Wednesday.

The crew was in a four-week quarantine period during which they shifted their sleep regimen to adjust their circadian rhythm ...

In March 1969, Schweickart and the crew of Apollo 9 helped pave the way for Apollo 11’s historic moon landing just a few months later. Griffin, Kranz, and Windler, key leaders behind the Mercury ...

Through tragedy the Apollo 1 crew sparked change and were instrumental in the future success of Apollo 11’s 1969 lunar landing. “It’s a terrific tribute of course to the way all progress is ...

The SpaceX Dragon spacecraft carrying Crew-9 astronauts, including Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore, has undocked from the ISS and is set to splashdown off the coast of Florida at 3:27 AM IST on ...

The crew of Apollo 9 spent ten days orbiting Earth and completed the first manned flight of the lunar module – the section of the Apollo rocket that would later land Neil Armstrong on the Moon.

But this mission was also to show that the crew could fly the lunar module independently and that it could rendezvous and dock with the command and service module again. Fratello × REM Strap — Apollo ...

Fifty-five years ago today, NASA astronauts James A. McDivitt, David R. Scott, and Russell L. Schweickart splashed down 4.5 nautical miles from the USS Guadalcanal, concluding a successful 10-day ...

Astronaut David R. Scott, command module pilot for the Apollo 9 Earth-orbital mission, stands in the command module’s open hatch during his stand-up spacewalk on March 6, 1969.

For Apollo 11, the command module, named Columbia, served as the living quarters for the three-person crew and was manufactured by North American Rockwell. The Columbia measured only 3.9 meters in ...