On January 27, 1967, three Apollo astronauts were killed during a routine preflight rehearsal at NASA's Kennedy Space Center. The Apollo 1 fire was the first major deadly disaster in the history of ...

Two weeks before Apollo 11, the USSR’s N-1 mega booster rose from Baikonur and detonated in one of history’s most powerful non-nuclear explosions. This is the behind-the-scenes story of how a single ...

Fifty years ago today, three American astronauts died in a sudden, uncontrollable cabin fire aboard the Apollo I space capsule. The deaths of Virgil "Gus" Grissom, Ed White, and Roger Chaffee could ...

It was the opening scene of the 1995 feature film "Apollo 13" and was recreated for the Neil Armstrong biopic "First Man" more than 20 years later. It was one of the catalysts for the Soviet Union to ...

Today is a somber day for NASA. The space agency marks the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 1 disaster, which claimed the lives of three astronauts who were slated to test out technologies needed to ...

— -- It's been forty years since Neil Armstrong "giant leap" onto the surface of the moon. Celebrate the anniversary with this look back at the Apollo program, from the tragedy of the Apollo 1 ...

The story of Laika, the first dog in space, feels like the beginning of an inspirational biopic. She began as a stray in Moscow and was lovingly given the name Kudryavka(Russian for "little curly one" ...

Earlier this month, the world lost one of the last remaining heroes of the space race-era when Frank Borman, the commander of the Apollo 8 mission and one of the first space explorers to witness an ...

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