Usually in Beyond Apollo I devote most of my attention to technical documents and their historical context. I do not normally focus on press conference transcripts. The 26 January 1967 NASA ...

56 years ago today, NASA’s Surveyor 6 lunar lander made history by conducting the first liftoff from the Moon’s surface as it used its engines to briefly liftoff from the Moon’s surface to a height of ...

1967: Gus Grissom, Ed White and Roger Chaffee are killed on the launch pad when a flash fire engulfs their command module during testing for the first Apollo/Saturn mission. They are the first U.S.

This image provided a new perspective on our Home: for the first time humans were able to admire a color photograph of their whole planet floating in the dark void of space. The photographic mission ...

It was supposed to be a routine launch pad test. But from the Apollo 1 command module came a panicked voice saying: "Fire in the cockpit." Exactly 40 years later, the three Apollo astronauts who were ...

A fire in the Apollo 1 command capsule during a countdown test Jan. 27, 1967, killed three astronauts. National Air and Space Museum On his last visit home to Texas on Jan. 22, 1967, astronaut Virgil ...