Relations between North American and NASA were strained during the Apollo program, particularly after the Apollo 1 fire during which three astronauts died. The cause of the accident was determined to be an electrical short in the wiring of the command module; while determination of responsibility ...
Only 18 people have flown on missions to the moon. Here are the astronauts of NASA's Apollo manned journeys to the lunar surface.
But the astronauts didn’t stop at honoring Americans who had died in the space program. Frank Borman, who orbited the moon as commander of Apollo 8, was invited to meet with officials in the Soviet Union during the space race. This mee...
This view of the rising Earth greeted the Apollo 8 astronauts as they came from behind the Moon after the fourth nearside orbit. The photo is displayed here in its original orientation, though it is more commonly viewed with the lunar surface at the bottom of the photo. Earth is...
In the Spring of 1970, just when it appeared that NASA had things down pat, disaster struck when one of Apollo 13's oxygen tanks exploded en route to the moon, crippling the primary spacecraft and forcing all three astronauts to seek refuge in the lunar module, which served as a lifeboat...
The three astronauts spent 18 days in quarantine to guard against possible contamination by lunar microbes. During the days that followed and during a tour of 21 nations, they were hailed for their part in the opening of a new era in humankind’s exploration of the universe. Apollo 11 was ...
No robot could have collected a suite of rocks and conveyed the context of those rocks the way the astronauts did, particularly during the J missions. 145:41:48Scott: Okay, there’s a big boulder over there down-Sun of us, that I’m sure you can see, Joe, which is gray. And it ...
director of the Planetary Geosciences Institute at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, agrees with Schmitt's take. He served in the "back-room" at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston during the Apollo 17 mission, and was one of those who directly advised the astronauts on the moon...
director of the Planetary Geosciences Institute at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, agrees with Schmitt's take. He served in the "back-room" at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston during theApollo 17 mission, and was one of those who directly advised the astronauts on the moon ...
Anders and fellow astronauts Jim Lovell and mission commanderFrank Borman, who died in November 2023, flew aboard the first lunar orbit mission in December 1968 on Apollo 8. Anders served as the lunar module pilot for the historic flight. ...