Crew members of NASA's Apollo 1 mission were honored this week at the Arlington National Cemetery for the tragedy that was the first in American space program history. More than half a century ago, a ...

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 ...

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 ...

The film highlights the journey of Major Donn Eisele, an astronaut who was part of the first Apollo mission to explore the Moon. It chronicles his path from graduating from Annapolis in 1952, through ...

Sheryl Chaffee remembers the January evening when astronaut Mike Collins came to the door and asked to speak with her mother. The two talked in a bedroom of the Chaffee home. Then Collins emerged and ...

The new memorial honors astronauts Virgil "Gus" Grissom, Edward White and Roger Chaffee. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A ...

Apollo 9 astronaut and longtime Sonoma resident Rusty Schweickart spoke to a sold-out crowd after the Sonoma International Film Festival’s screening of the new documentary, “Apollo 1” on Saturday, ...

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 ...