Only in hindsight did NASA realize that the fire had been a tragedy waiting to happen. After Apollo 1, the space program continued with a renewed purpose and diligence. Frank Borman, the ...

Guillermo, Palm Beach, Florida There’s no question that sending human beings to space is an extraordinarily difficult and ...

The concept of a completely reusable space shuttle was first discussed in the 1960s, before the Apollo lunar landing spacecraft had ... and two recoverable solid rocket boosters (Figure 5.1). Figure 5 ...

White later became one of the first casualties of the space race, dying in 1967 in a launch-pad fire that consumed the Apollo 1 mission, the first crewed mission of the US programme to reach the moon.

Space history curator Michael Neufeld explores the history of Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Complex 39, which has seen launches of the Apollo program and Space Shuttle, and will see the return ...

5 Of The Most Advanced Nuclear Submarines In The World The Space Shuttle wasn't the first manned NASA spacecraft to bring ...

With Apollo 11’s successful landing on the ... after the Soviet Union had deployed the world’s first space station, Salyut 1. This station only hosted a single crew, which arrived aboard ...

A giant Saturn V rocket will fire Apollo 11 and her crew into space. With so much power underneath ... That’s where their friends on the Apollo 1 mission burned to death during practice in ...

You can launch a Space Launch System of your own with this Estes NASA SLS model rocket for a 1:200 scale version of NASA's moon megarocket. Read more about it. NASA's ...

Now they’ve scored their first-ever #1. The chart-topping ... social and musical performance space in the 18th century in Leipzig, Germany. The Apollo’s Fire recordings are inspired by musical ...

20 people have died – 14 in the NASA space shuttle tragedies of 1986 and 2003, three cosmonauts during the 1971 Soyuz 11 mission, and three astronauts in the Apollo 1 launch pad fire in 1967.