The Lego bricks are being dusted off for a final time – at least for the Apollo program – to recreate the Apollo Soyuz Test Project via the medium of the plaything.… While Lego has released some ...

WASHINGTON — Astronaut Thomas P. Stafford, who commanded the last Apollo test flight before the 1969 moon landing, died Monday at the age of 93. Stafford was already a veteran astronaut when he and ...

Stafford Helped Lead Space Race During Gemini and Apollo, Was Exemplary Air Force Test Pilot School Leader and Annapolis Graduate. The world has lost astronaut, test pilot, scientist and adventurer ...

On Jan. 22, 1968, NASA launched Apollo 5, marking the first time the Apollo Lunar Module flew in space and a critical step toward landing astronauts on the Moon.

On April 4, 1968, NASA launched the final un-crewed test flight of its Saturn V rocket. The Apollo 6 mission demonstrated that the Saturn V rocket and the Apollo spacecraft were ready to send ...

Fifty-five years ago today, humans landed on the Moon. On the mission were three American pilots, all military pilots who had served as combat or test pilots before heading to space. Apollo 11’s lunar ...

Using an historic Apollo era test stand at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, commercial space company Sierra Space inflated a prototype space habitat that could one day serve as a ...

Today is the 102 nd birthday of Apollo 7 astronaut Wally Schirra, who won an Emmy award for filming a TV show in space while suffering from a bad cold. Apollo 7 astronauts (left to right) Donn Eisele ...