The prime crew for the first manned flight of Project Apollo died in a flash fire inside the three-man spacecraft atop its ...
A fatal fire during a routine test killed three Nasa astronauts inside the Apollo 1 capsule, 59 years ago. This tragedy ...
CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Apollo 11 command module Columbia on temporary cradle. Photo by Eric Long, National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution The last time ...
IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. The lithium hydroxide canister was ...
The U.S. Space and Rocket Center has completed the annual cleaning of the Apollo 16 Command module. The work ensures the display is preserved for generations to come. The archives team handles the ...
[Mike Stewart] powers up a thrust meter from an Apollo lunar module. This bit of kit passed inspection on September 25, 1969. Fortunately [Mike] was able to dig up some old documentation which ...
Hundreds of NASA employees and contractors are working the three-day holiday weekend in an effort to attempt something that hasn’t happened since December 1972: sending astronauts to the moon. The ...
Scheduled to launch in early 2026, NASA’s Artemis 2 is part of the bold 21st-century vision for returning astronauts to the lunar surface During a training exercise in Houston in January 2025, the ...
That fact is that there are modern heatshields and none are built how you suggest. Dragon uses cast blocks of PICA-X and Starliner uses a hand filled honeycomb of something proprietary. Dragon seems ...