Apollo mission commanders, primarily focused on mission duties, generally exhibited minimal post-flight personality changes. In contrast, lunar module pilots frequently experienced significant ...

A Dec. 7 Facebook post (direct link, archive link) shows an image of a stealth bomber in flight and another image of the bulky Apollo 11 lunar module on the moon's surface. The bomber is labeled, ...

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Mattingly also commanded two space shuttle missions, logging a total of 21 days off Earth. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. For ...

The Apollo missions showed exact science at work. Each part needed to be close to perfection from start to finish. NASA succeeded with 1960s tools—a remarkable feat. Though it was still cutting-edge ...

Leading up to the historic 1969 Apollo 11 mission, ABC News built a mock Apollo command module to give viewers an inside look at how astronauts would travel to the lunar surface. See more of the ...

WEDNESDAY NIGHT RIGHT HERE ON WESH 2. NASA ASTRONAUT KEN MATTINGLY, WHO SPANNED APOLLO TO SHUTTLE ERAS, DIED THIS WEEK AT THE AGE OF 87. YEAH, HE FLEW TO THE MOON ON APOLLO 16, BUT IS WELL KNOWN FOR ...

On Christmas Eve in 1968, the three astronauts on Apollo 8 looked back toward home as their craft made one of its 10 orbits around the moon. Framed inside thewindow was the marbled blue orb of Earth, ...