On October 11th, 1968, just 15 months from President Kennedy’s deadline for a moon landing, NASA launched its first Apollo crew into space. Apollo 7’s Wally Schirra, Donn Eisele, and Walter Cunningham ...

Apollo 12 splashed down safely on November 24, 1969, but four days earlier, part of the spacecraft never made it home. In an official report on the mission of Apollo 12 (December 1969) published by ...

Early Apollo Missions: Earth Orbit Apollo missions flew unmanned until October 11, 1968, when Wally Schirra, Donn Eisele and Walt Cunningham orbited the earth for ten days in an Apollo command-service ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Now, more than half a century later, the crew's historic mission is capturing the public's attention again — not because of what ...

The mishap still stands out in NASA's history. In November 1969, during his walk on the Moon, astronaut Alan Bean took an almost brand-new color television camera. Still, as he set it up, he pointed ...

Not only can space permanently damage astronauts, but there are many bad ways to die in space that'll make you think twice about becoming one. Even then, getting struck by lightning two times within a ...

The photos come from the Apollo 12 and 17 missions The photos come from the Apollo 12 and 17 missions The photos come from the Apollo 12 and 17 missions The Pentagon has collected and published what ...