especially the Command and Service Module (CSM) needed for future lunar missions and the lunar module (LM). Furthermore, the ...

was left in lunar orbit after it rendezvoused with the command module Collins was in the next day and Eagle eventually landed back on the moon’s surface. Apollo 12 was NASA’s second crewed ...

Yet North American faced its own challenges, notably NASA’s mandate ... when rescuers reached Apollo 1, five minutes after Chaffee’s initial shout. The command module, dimly lit by flickering ...

NASA's requested funding was spent on the Great Society, including building rapid transit system in several cities ...

Photos of the Apollo 1 Fire: NASA's First Disaster — Remembering ... a fire erupted inside the Apollo command module with all three astronauts trapped inside. Heat caused the air pressure ...

Apollo 14, the third U.S. mission to land on the moon, blasted off using a Saturn V rocket from Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

Three Apollo I astronauts Rogers Chaffee, Edward White and Gus Grissom die due to a flash fire at a grounded space capsule in Cape Canaveral, [...] ...

"We must honor their sacrifice by fortifying our commitment to safety and excellence as new generations of space explorers, follow their footsteps." ...

On January 27, 1967, three Apollo astronauts were killed during a routine preflight rehearsal at NASA's Kennedy Space Center.