NASA flight director, Gene Kranz, now 91 years old, is seen posing with his lifetime achievement award from the American ...

Feb. 26: First launch of the Saturn 1-B rocket carrying an unmanned Apollo spacecraft. March 16: Astronauts Neil Armstrong and David Scott are launched aboard Gemini 8; the flight is aborted early ...

Ars recently had the opportunity to spend some quality time touring the restored Apollo "Mission Control" room at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. We talked with Sy Liebergot, a retired ...

Apollo 1’s backup crew was immediately called up for Apollo 7. (Originally the two flights were called AS-204 and AS-205. The former was renamed Apollo 1 after the fire; Apollo missions 2 ...

Now, almost 50 years later, NASA's Apollo 11 Flight Plan is being relaunchedon Kickstarter as the "perfect" reprint. "We've set out to produce the highest quality reproduction of the Apollo 11 ...

More than half a century since its pages served as humanity's first roadmap to the moon, NASA's Apollo 11 flight plan has been relaunched. More than a simple reprint, this new edition from ...

To answer all those lingering questions, we asked an expert: Apollo flight controller Sy Liebergot. He manned the EECOM console for a number of flights—including Apollo 13. During the coast ...

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Astronaut Frank Borman, who commanded Apollo 8’s historic Christmas 1968 flight that circled the moon 10 times and paved the way for the lunar landing the next year ...

The flight of Apollo 13 was so compelling that it became the subject of the first major motion picture to come out of the moon program. The movie has some interesting lessons to teach about the ...