This story ran in the Houston Chronicle on July 18, 1975. The headlines and words are reprinted as they appeared then Astronauts and cosmonauts today shuttled between their linked spacecraft, sharing ...

Fifty years ago today, on January 31, 1971, at 4:03 pm EST, a Saturn V rocket lifted off from Pad A of Launch Complex 39 at the Kennedy Space Center carrying Apollo 14 – the Moon mission that would ...

(WHTM) On July 15, 1975, two rockets blasted off into space. The Soviet Union’s Soyuz 19 launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 8:20 a.m. EDT, carrying cosmonauts Alexey Leonov and Valery ...

"Soyuz and Apollo are shaking hands now!" Fifty years ago today (July 17), at 12:09 p.m. EDT (1609 GMT), history was made as two crewed spacecraft launched by two countries docked together in orbit ...

On March 3, 1969, NASA launched the Apollo 9 mission to test the first crewed Lunar Module spacecraft that would pave the way for future moon landings. See how the mission worked in photos here. This ...

I'd think that even casual dorks interested in humanity's actual space programs would be aware of the very first joint mission between two spacefaring countries: the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project of 1975, ...

Before Neil Armstrong set foot on the Moon, becoming the first human to step on another world, we had to be ready. A big part of the readiness came earlier that year, when three astronauts flew in ...

The passing of Tom Stafford leaves only seven surviving Apollo Moon voyagers. Nicknamed “Mumbles”, this Air Force three-star general dodged death on the launchpad, set records as one of the fastest ...

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 ...