Houston, we have a new reason to celebrate 1995's "Apollo 13" movie. The "Apollo 13" movie astronaut crew included Hanks (as Lovell), Kevin Bacon (command module pilot Jack Swigert) and Bill Paxton ...
Fifty years ago today, three American astronauts died in a sudden, uncontrollable cabin fire aboard the Apollo I space capsule. The deaths of Virgil "Gus" Grissom, Ed White, and Roger Chaffee could ...
To the average American living in 1970, the space program had become rather humdrum. The previous year had witnessed Apollo 11’s historic first Moon landing and Apollo 12’s precision touchdown within ...
A new documentary doesn't just tell the story of Apollo 13, but finds parallels between the mission and the perils we face on Earth. © NASA It’s been more than 60 ...
The Church of the Savior United Church of Christ in Knoxville got an unexpected gift from space in 1972 - one that continues ...
Three astronauts were sealed inside a spacecraft preparing for a simulated liftoff to practice what would happen for real less than a month later. But Air Force Col. Virgil I. Grissom, Air Force Col.
"Fate has ordained that the men who went to the moon to explore in peace will stay on the moon to rest in peace." So begins President Richard Nixon's televised address to the nation 51 years ago, ...
One historical tidbit worth another look in the aftermath of astronaut Neil Armstrong' death on Saturday at the age of 82: The text of the speech President Richard Nixon had his staff prepare in the ...
A team of Loveland sculptors has put the finishing touches on their monument to the astronauts of Apollo 13 half a century after the mission that began as a third trip to the moon ended as a heroic ...
James is a published author with multiple pop-history and science books to his name. He specializes in history, space, strange science, and anything out of the ordinary.View full profile James is a ...
The Apollo disaster in January plunged the U.S. space program into an agonizing interregnum of introspection and doubt. Last week the nation’s space leaders made it plain that the time has come to ...
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