To overcome the Earth’s orbital gravity, NASA required a rocket 100 times more powerful than the Mercury boosters that launched the first American astronaut into orbit in 1961. The three-stage Saturn ...

The scene lasts barely a minute, yet it captures something oddly truthful about the Apollo era. Not the engineering itself – ...

All the major chapters in the American story, from Indigenous beginnings to the present day. Yet just a few years later, some people claimed the “giant leap for mankind” had been faked. Conspiracy ...

The Apollo 13 mission was to land on the moon for a third, but it soon turned into a rescue mission. An oxygen tank exploded aboard the spacecraft, causing both the crew on board and ground control to ...

NASA asked James W. Head III to work with astronauts selected for the first manned mission to orbit the moon since the end of the Apollo program Unlike Apollo’s “fast and furious” race to the moon ...