Frank Borman, commander of Apollo 8, wrote in his autobiography, "The NASA of more recent years got the idea that you could put almost any highly intelligent person into a spacecraft and qualify ...

On November 14, 1969, the Apollo 12 mission launched to the moon. This was the second moon landing of the Apollo program. The ...

The part of the Apollo spacecraft designed to return the astronauts through Earth's atmosphere after the mission - the command module (CM) - had to be shut down to conserve its remaining resources ...

We were in a Cold War-era, including having a fierce “domination” competition going on with the Russians over the control of outer space, and undoubtedly the lack of an Apollo 12 moon landing ...

advanced spacecraft design by engineering dockable components. The Apollo program followed, named for the Greek god of music, prophecy, medicine, light, and progress. Apollo spacecraft were ...

Fifty years on, the Apollo Moon programme is probably still humankind's single greatest technological achievement. On 16 July 1969, astronauts Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins were ...