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 ...

The prime crew for the first manned flight of Project Apollo died in a flash fire inside the three-man spacecraft atop its ...

The cleaning ensures the display is preserved for future generations.

NASA's first tragedy is recalled annually at Launch Complex 34. This year is different, as the Artemis II mission sits on the ...

By 1967, NASA had wrapped up the Mercury and Gemini programs and was preparing for the launch of the first Apollo-series spacecraft.

On the annual Day of Remembrance, "Apollo 1," a film that highlights a NASA tragedy during the race to the moon, was ...

Step inside a fascinating space exploration museum and join us on an immersive journey through the history of moon missions.

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Apollo 11 command module Columbia on temporary cradle. Photo by Eric Long, National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution The last time ...

Live updates from SpaceX’s Tuesday night GPS III-9 mission that launched a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force ...

When Neil Armstrong Aldrin reflected on Apollo 11, they were looking backward at a moment that reshaped history.

AMONG the thousands of groundlings who worked to make Apollo 8 a success, the person most responsible for the flight was a Vienna-born engineer named George Low, who is little known outside the NASA ...

One morning this past June, inside the mission control building at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, 20 or so flight controllers were seated at consoles arranged in neat rows. The atmosphere was ...