Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Three men look through a frosted window. one holds a camera. Houston, we have a new reason to celebrate 1995's "Apollo 13" movie.

Apollo 13 came close to tragedy in 1970, but a new documentary finds hope for our planet in the failed Moon mission. Reading time 4 minutes It’s been more than 60 years since Yuri Gagarin became the ...

The exhibit, called Ad Astra Per Astera: A Rough Road Leads to the Stars, opened yesterday at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. In addition to displaying personal effects of the three astronauts, ...

Fifty years ago today, three American astronauts died in a sudden, uncontrollable cabin fire aboard the Apollo I space capsule. The deaths of Virgil "Gus" Grissom, Ed White, and Roger Chaffee could ...

Back to the Moon on National Geographic TV.

Outer space can be dangerous, especially in movies. There have been a variety of disasters that have space origins in film. Sometimes, it’s something from space threatening Earth. Other times, it’s ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — Jan. 27 is a dark day in the world of space exploration. It’s the anniversary of the Apollo 1 fire that killed three NASA astronauts, including Grand Rapids native Roger B ...

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