Click to open image viewer. Apollo 13, the third scheduled manned lunar landing, was launched on April 11, 1970, from Kennedy Space Center. The crewmembers were Commander James Lovell, Lunar Module ...

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 ...

DALLAS and OMAHA, Neb., Jan. 15, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- CareCubes, developer of FDA-cleared bedside isolation solutions, and MobileOp4, provider of mobile, climate-controlled modular infrastructure for ...

Things were not going well aboard Apollo 7: the astronauts felt stressed by the confines of the command module and to top it off, astronaut Wally Schirra developed a ...

As part of our 150th birthday, the Orlando Sentinel will reprint articles from our archives as part of our Monday Memory feature. Here’s one from 59 years ago this week about the death of the Apollo 1 ...

SEATTLE — Retired Maj. Gen. William Anders, the former Apollo 8 astronaut who took the iconic “Earthrise” photo showing the planet as a shadowed blue marble from space in 1968, was killed Friday when ...

Warning lights flashed: a life-threatening emergency. Air was leaking from the crew’s module, and the spaceship’s life-support system was failing. Calmly and methodically, the four astronauts ...

For decades, parking lots at San Diego’s Balboa Park were packed, with lines of drivers snaking through lanes in search of a rare open spot. Last Saturday there were plenty of open spaces, and on ...