On April 16, 1972, Apollo 16 launched to the moon ... Ken Mattingly, the command module pilot, and Charlie Duke, the lunar module pilot. They lifted off from Kennedy Space Center on a Saturn ...

From solar probes to deep space missions, these record-breaking human-made objects reached speeds that make bullets and jets ...

Seen here, the fourth simulated abort test of the Apollo Spacecraft designated A ... wrong and then spectacularly right as the command module successfully detached from the disintegrating Little ...

Did you know that Canadian feet were actually the first to touch down on the Moon during the Apollo 11 mission?

However, some astronauts said they were far from lonely when cruising through the abyss of space. Michael Collins, who ...

The crew of Apollo 13 consisted of Commander James (Jim) Lovell Jr., Command Module Pilot John Swigert Jr. and Lunar Module Pilot Fred Haise Jr. Their Saturn V rocket launched at 2:13 p.m. EST on ...

Standing tall in the main room is the B-36J Peacemaker, with only three others left in the world. This giant counts as the ...

Click "confirm" to purchase this lot. The present image was taken by Astronaut Russell Schweickart, the lunar module pilot of the Apollo 9 Mission. In the background of the image, the Earth is visible ...

Smylie, with his team, found the "way to make 'this' fit into the hole for 'this,' using nothing but 'that.'" It was about one in the morning, four hours after an explosion tore through the Apollo ...

As the commander of the Apollo 11 mission, Armstrong left his Speedmaster inside the lunar module "Eagle" as a backup to a broken timer, leading to Aldrin becoming the first person to wear a watch ...

Robert Edwin “Ed” Smylie of Crossville, Tennessee, a Mississippi State alumnus who played a pivotal role in the Apollo 13 mission’s success ... the environmental control system hose to the command ...

Houston plaintiffs lawyer Ronald "Ronny" Krist won the suit that established crashworthiness in Texas, and represented the ...