It was the opening scene of the 1995 feature film "Apollo 13" and was recreated for the Neil Armstrong biopic "First Man" more than 20 years later. It was one of the catalysts for the Soviet Union to ...

“It’s a terrific tribute of course to the way all progress is made,” Rusty Schweickart said of the film. Apollo 9 astronaut and longtime Sonoma resident Rusty Schweickart spoke to a sold-out crowd ...

Three astronauts died in a fire during an Apollo 1 test. The fire was caused by a faulty spacecraft design and pure oxygen atmosphere. The tragedy led to significant safety improvements in spacecraft ...

To this day, Gene Kranz may be the most famous and most consequential figure in the history of Mission Control at NASA. Kranz was the longtime flight director for the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo ...

The Apollo program was the first to bring humans to the moon. Even though the program began in the early 1960s until 1972, with 12 astronauts walking the moon's surface during this time frame, there ...

On Oct. 11, 1968, three men boarded NASA's Saturn IB and had what the agency described as a "perfect launch" into space in the first crewed Apollo mission. On Tuesday, Walter Cunningham – the last ...