OTD In Space - April 4: Last Un-crewed Apollo Test Flight

On 1968, NASA launched the final uncrewed test flight of its Saturn V rocket. The Apollo 6 mission demonstrated that the ...
BBC Science/Nature

The 'flight of the Spider'

Forty years ago this week, mankind's attempts to land on the Moon took a giant leap forward with the maiden spaceflight of the Apollo Lunar Module. Continuing his series of essays for the 40th ...
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The Apollo 10 command module landed in Glasgow in 1971 - Scottish Memories

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Apollo 13 astronauts and flight controllers reflect on a ‘successful failure’

On the evening of April 13, 50 years ago, NASA astronauts James Lovell Jr., John Swigert Jr. and Fred Haise Jr. were about to go to sleep for the night in the Apollo 13 command module. They were about ...
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Command Module, Apollo 6

Click to open image viewer. The unmanned Apollo 6 Command Module (CM 020) was launched from Kennedy Space Center on April 4, 1968 and recovered in the Pacific Ocean 10 hours later. The mission was the ...
Daily Mail

Apollo 11 ascent stage that helped Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin return safely from the lunar surface may still be orbiting the moon and not crashed as previously believed ...

History changed forever after Neil Armstrong said, 'The Eagle has landed,' but a new study suggests that part of the Apollo 11 'Eagle' Lunar Module (LM), once thought to have crashed on the moon, may ...
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Former astronaut Cunningham, member of first crewed Apollo flight, dies at age 90

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE PHOTO: Astronaut Walter Cunningham, Apollo 7 lunar module pilot, is photographed during the Apollo 7 mission in this NASA ...