Three astronauts were sealed inside a spacecraft preparing for a simulated liftoff to practice what would happen for real less than a month later. But Air Force Col. Virgil I. Grissom, Air Force Col.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - No one saw it. No one knew just when it came to life. Somewhere beneath the seat of Apollo 1 Commander Gus Grissom, an open wire chafed. Insulation was worn and torn. The wire, ...

Google's first use of AR in Search equips your living room with a 3D re-creation of the command module that first took astronauts to the moon. Steven Musil is a senior news editor at CNET News. He's ...

Fifty years ago today, the three-man Apollo 11 crew was halfway to the moon. Commander Neil Armstrong, lander pilot Buzz Aldrin and command module pilot Michael Collins did a 96-minute live TV ...

Jan. 27, 1967: A fire during a dress rehearsal for the first Apollo space mission ended the lives of three astronauts and nearly derailed NASA’s goal of landing on the moon before the end of the 1960s ...