On 26 May 1969, the command module of Apollo 10 hit Earth’s atmosphere travelling at 36,397 feet per second, or 39,937.7 ...
Humans first visited the Moon in 1969. The last time we went was 1972, over 50 years ago. Back then, astronauts in the Apollo ...
Click to open image viewer. As part of the Apollo program, a number of so-called "boilerplate" (BP) command modules were ...
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Though NASA expected their complicated machines would not always work right, the first deaths in the space program still came as ...
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Former NASA astronaut Walter Cunningham, who flew on the first test of the Apollo command module in Earth orbit, has died at the ...
In 1971 Stuart Roosa — the command module pilot of Apollo 14 — carried hundreds of tree seeds around the Moon.