Early Apollo Missions: Earth Orbit Apollo missions flew unmanned until October 11, 1968, when Wally Schirra, Donn Eisele and Walt Cunningham orbited the earth for ten days in an Apollo command ...
For that reason, NASA made photography a high priority during the Apollo missions, redesigning cameras that could operate in the punishing environment of space and inventing ultra-thin film that ...
US astronaut Walter Cunningham, the last surviving member of the first Nasa mission to ever broadcast live TV from orbit, has died at the age of 90. Apollo 7 was an 11-day manned mission in 1968 ...
Software for computers aboard the Apollo spacecraft and in mission control had to be written ... Frank Borman and Jim Lovell crewed Gemini 7 — "two weeks in the front seat of a Volkswagen ...
It's nearly 50 years since the US became the first country to land men on the Moon. The Apollo 11 mission was a huge moment in US and world history, but what exactly happened and why does it matter?
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon capsule with a crew of four on a mission to the International ... than anyone has traveled since 1972 when Apollo 17 astronauts landed on the moon.
a review by Mark Feeney of a documentary about Apollo 13 mentioned three Apollo missions that “everyone” remembers: Apollo 11, Apollo 14, and Apollo 13 (“On Netflix, revisiting Apollo 13 ...
Apollo 13: Survival uses archive material and rare access to the complete audio recordings of the mission of astronauts Jim Lovell, Jack Swigert and Fred Haise. The event was adapted into an Oscar ...