Though NASA expected their complicated machines would not always work right, the first deaths in the space program still came as a shock -- because the fatal mishap occurred on the ground. Gus Grissom ...

Today marks exactly 45 years since the crew of Apollo 13 made it safely back to earth after their craft was damaged on the way to the moon. A gas explosion caused by exposed wires blew a hole in the ...

In this video, we focus on the Saturn V rocket, which launched the Apollo spacecraft into orbit. Notably, there were 13 ...

Apollo 13 was supposed to be NASA’s third crewed mission to the surface of the moon, but nearly 56 hours into the flight, command module pilot John “Jack” Swigert radioed a troubling message to ...

Fifty years ago today, three American astronauts died in a sudden, uncontrollable cabin fire aboard the Apollo I space capsule. The deaths of Virgil "Gus" Grissom, Ed White, and Roger Chaffee could ...

Today marks the 45th anniversary of the launch of Nasa's historic moon mission on 16 July 1969. Changing the course of human history, astronauts Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin ...