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 ...

And wonderfully, you can visit. The aptly named Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex is a full museum, with exhibits including a decommissioned Saturn V rocket, tons of memorabilia, and an actual ...

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 ...

Like many other early Baby Boomers, I have been periodically in awe of our various space adventures ... a flash fire in ...

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 ...

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 ...

He became the ninth person to walk on the moon as commander of Apollo 16 and commanded the maiden space shuttle mission, STS-1, on Space Shuttle Columbia as well as one other shuttle mission ...