The prime crew for the first manned flight of Project Apollo died in a flash fire inside the three-man spacecraft atop its ...

On the annual Day of Remembrance, "Apollo 1," a film that highlights a NASA tragedy during the race to the moon, was ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Astronaut Jim Lovell, who died Thursday, was part of the three-man crew on the Apollo 13 NASA mission in 1970. Decades later, ...

Robert “Ed” Smylie, the NASA official who led a team of engineers that cobbled together an apparatus made of cardboard, plastic bags and duct tape that saved the Apollo 13 crew in 1970 after an ...

Ed Smylie, who became a quiet hero of the space age in 1970 when he and his fellow NASA engineers jury-rigged an air filter that kept the three Apollo 13 astronauts alive after an onboard explosion ...

CHICAGO (AP) — James Lovell, the commander of Apollo 13 who helped turn a failed moon mission into a triumph of on-the-fly can-do engineering, has died. He was 97. Lovell died Thursday in Lake Forest, ...

Former Apollo astronaut James Lovell, who personified the spirt of NASA’s calm confidence that despair would never have dominion, has died at the age of 97. As noted by the New York Times, Lovell ...

MILLINGTON, Tenn. - It's been 56 years since the famous quote from the moon landing was uttered: "One small step for man... One giant leap for mankind." But that step onto the pages of history was ...

On this day in aviation history, 57 years ago (December 24, 1968), Apollo 8 became the first manned spacecraft to leave planet Earth's gravitational pull, and also the first human space flight to ...

Robert "Ed" Smylie, the NASA official who led a team of engineers that cobbled together an apparatus made of cardboard, plastic bags and duct tape that saved the Apollo 13 crew in 1970 after an ...