Splashdown occurred in the Pacific Ocean at 1:07 p.m. April 17, after a flight that lasted five days, 22 hours and 54 minutes. [...] ...
With the spacecraft crippled and more than 210,000 miles from Earth, flight directors and engineers in Houston, led by Eugene ...
Stare into the open hatch of Odyssey, the scarred Apollo 13 command module in which three American astronauts made their ...
RR Auction’s April 23 sale features Gene Cernan’s thrice‑flown 1953 $2 note—the only paper money carried in Earth and lunar ...
John Young and Charlie Duke were the next men to walk on the moon. When the crew reached lunar orbit, the mission almost had ...
No longer deniable, the greenhouse effect changes the climate, which changes the vegetation. Under dry and windy conditions, ...
On April 17, 1970, Apollo 13 returned to Earth after narrowly avoiding a deadly disaster in space. [‘On This Day in Space’ ...
With the world anxiously watching, Apollo 13, a U.S. lunar spacecraft that suffered a severe malfunction on its journey to ...
Parades, celebratory banquets and question and answer sessions with local students awaited space explorers who visited the city.
Over the objection of Republican leadership, the House advanced legislation to restore temporary protected status (TPS) for ...
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This day in history: Apollo 26 takes off to the moon
On April 16, 1972, Apollo 16 was successfully launched on its 238,000-mile journey to the moon. This launch marked the start ...
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