‘Apollo 1’ film ‘a great tribute’ to astronauts who paved way to NASA’s future successes, says Rusty Schweickart “It’s a terrific tribute of course to the way all progress is made ...

One of the early Apollo astronauts has died. Walt Cunningham died Tuesday after complications from a fall. He was 90. Walt Cunningham flew in space just one time. His flight in 1968 was an ...

In this video, astronaut Charlie Duke, the youngest of the only 12 people to have walked on the moon and one of four still ...

On July 17, 1975, an American Apollo crew and a Soviet Soyuz crew met up in Earth orbit for the first time, setting the ...

The prestigious scholarship is in honor of the Grand Rapids astronaut who perished with two others in the Apollo 1 mission on Jan. 27, 1967 - NASA’s first fatal spacecraft accident.

I knew I was alone,” he observed later, “in a way that no earthling has ever been before.” That quote is immortalized on a ...

Sonoma astronaut Rusty Schweickart to appear at screening of new ‘Apollo 1’ movie at film festival Sonoma’s Rusty Schweickart appears in “Apollo 1,” a new documentary film about the ...

NASA honors the Apollo 1 astronauts, and all other fallen astronauts on January 28th, which is also the anniversary of the Challenger disaster.

Astronauts Virgil I. 'Gus' Grissom, Edward H. White, and Roger B. Chaffee lost their lives when a fire erupted in the cockpit during a launch rehearsal for the NASA Apollo 1 space mission. The ...

On Apollo 1, during a launch rehearsal test on Jan. 27, 1967, all three astronauts on board — Gus Grissom, Ed White, and Roger B. Chaffee — died when a fire swept through the command module.

Tiny, orange glass beads discovered on the moon during the Apollo era may reveal an untold history of lunar volcanism.

It wasn’t the disaster that came to define Apollo 13. A far worse outcome occurred on January 21, 1967, when all three Apollo 1 astronauts were killed in a cabin fire during a launch rehearsal test.