In mid-1964, only three years after President John F. Kennedy put the U.S. on course for the moon, a team of engineers at Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) in Huntsville, Alabama, became the first ...

Usually in Beyond Apollo I devote most of my attention to technical documents and their historical context. I do not normally focus on press conference transcripts. The 26 January 1967 NASA ...

This video details the journey to the moon and the successful landing on the lunar surface during the Apollo 11 mission. It ...

Fifty years ago Friday, the first – but sadly not the last – fatal spaceflight accident struck NASA when a fire claimed the lives of Virgil “Gus” Grissom, Roger Chaffee, and Ed White during a training ...

Tom Stafford, Gene Cernan, and John Young went through a full lunar landing mission ... with the notable exception of actually landing on the surface. Apollo 10 doesn’t get much attention. On the rare ...