CAPE KENNEDY -- America's first three Apollo astronauts died only 218 feet off the ground Friday night in a blazing explosion inside their space capsule atop its launch pad. An electrical spark ...

Navy Seal frogman to astronaut William Anders, explaining his reaction to opening the Apollo 8 capsule The Apollo 8 mission made history and its crew were rightfully honored as the bravest of ...

They were the first American astronauts to die in a spacecraft. The exhaustive investigation of the fire and extensive reworking of the Apollo command modules postponed crewed launches until NASA ...

Gus Grissom, Ed White and Roger Chaffee had been selected as the crew for Apollo 1, the first flight of the next generation of spacecraft succeeding the Gemini program. On January 27, 1967 ...

Michigan is sure to see the Apollo Command Module flanking the front entrance. Right now it’s being used as a different kind of capsule: a time capsule they’ll open in 2076 (the American ...

Courtesy photo Estella Koch helps to prepare the Apollo capsule for transportation to the restoration location. A 9,000-pound cone-shaped hunk of metal rusting away on a Mercer County farm for ...