The prime crew for the first manned flight of Project Apollo died in a flash fire inside the three-man spacecraft atop its ...

By 1967, NASA had wrapped up the Mercury and Gemini programs and was preparing for the launch of the first Apollo-series spacecraft.

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IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Apollo 13, the third scheduled manned ...

Step inside a fascinating space exploration museum and join us on an immersive journey through the history of moon missions.

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While Alan Shepard played one of the worst rounds of Moon golf on record, an experiment was circling the Moon 34 times on ...

On the annual Day of Remembrance, "Apollo 1," a film that highlights a NASA tragedy during the race to the moon, was showcased.

The city’s current estimates for parking revenue this year are now about a quarter of its original goal. Meanwhile museum directors warn that lost admission fees could far outweigh the gains, as the ...

When Neil Armstrong Aldrin reflected on Apollo 11, they were looking backward at a moment that reshaped history.

One morning this past June, inside the mission control building at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, 20 or so flight ...

AMONG the thousands of groundlings who worked to make Apollo 8 a success, the person most responsible for the flight was a Vienna-born engineer named George Low, who is little known outside the NASA ...