Polaris Dawn just traveled the furthest humans have since 1972, and the crew is ready to set even more firsts.

Polaris Dawn aims for first private spacewalk Mission to travel the farthest since the Apollo missions Crew preps for SpaceX ...

The astronauts were strapped into bench-like "couches" during launch and landing in ... sure where the ascent stages of Apollo 11's module Eagle or Apollo 16's module Orion ended up.

On January 27, 1967, during a practice launch countdown ... John Young, Ken Mattingly and Charlie Duke of Apollo 16 and Gene Cernan, Ron Evans and Harrison Schmitt of Apollo 17 traveled ever ...

The three were scheduled to launch on Feb. 21 of that year for ... After this initial moon landing flight, Apollo 12, 14, 15, ...

That same day, NASA managers met to select a formal target launch date. That meeting resulted in 16 July 1969 being chosen as Apollo 11’s launch day – a target the mission would meet.

The bottom portion—the mostly gold colored struts and legs—would serve as a launch platform ... not long before their April 16, 1972 liftoff. The full book Apollo VII – XVII by Simon ...

Apollo 13 came close to tragedy in 1970, but a new documentary finds hope for our planet in the failed Moon mission.

A NASA flight readiness team took two weeks to analyze all the mission’s data before formally giving Apollo 11 clearance for its upcoming July 16, 1969 launch. But most of all, Apollo 10’s ...

By the end of the first day in space, the spacecraft's 16 ... since Apollo 17 had been to the Hubble Space Telescope, which orbits at approximately 320 miles. When is the next Florida launch?