On January 27, 1967, Apollo 1 astronauts Gus Grissom, Ed White and Roger Chaffee were killed during a routine preflight rehearsal at NASA's Kennedy Space Center. On January 27, 1967, Apollo 1 ...

After Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins splashed down from the lunar landing in July 1969, President Richard M. Nixon was ready and waiting to greet them.

With almost religious reverence, they lay bright splashes of ... an unpowered (“plugs-out”) test of Apollo 1 that took place Jan. 27, 1967, fellow astronaut Wally Schirra pulled Grissom ...

CAPE KENNEDY -- America's first three Apollo astronauts died only 218 feet off ... White, 36, and rookie Roger Chaffee, 31, died in flames while lying on their backs in their moonship in a routine ...

Recent photos taken by India’s Space Research Organization moon orbiter, known as Chandrayaan 2, clearly show the Apollo 11 and Apollo 12 landing sites more than 50 years later. The photos were ...

In Platoff's report, she points out that NASA engineers were challenged by the prospect of Apollo astronauts raising a flag on the moon. "They designed a flagpole with a horizontal bar allowing ...

CAPE KENNEDY -- Apollo 8, thundering on a pillar of flame and smoke into history's greatest adventure, carried three astronauts into an aiming orbit today for man's first voyage around the moon.

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