One morning this past June, inside the mission control building at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, 20 or so flight controllers were seated at consoles arranged in neat rows. The atmosphere was ...

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

NASA's first tragedy is recalled annually at Launch Complex 34. This year is different, as the Artemis II mission sits on the ...

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 ...

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

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Apollo 11 command module Columbia on temporary cradle. Photo by Eric Long, National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution The last time ...

Hundreds of NASA employees and contractors are working the three-day holiday weekend in an effort to attempt something that hasn’t happened since December 1972: sending astronauts to the moon. The ...

Last year delivered doses of drama and excitement in the space business, with a record number of launches, breathtaking vistas of other worlds, and a multitude of breakthroughs and setbacks. 2026 is ...

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 ...

Yes, while delivering a commentary as they navigated their way to the Moon and back, the conversation between Commander ...