The "stuck" Boeing Starliner astronauts will return to Earth March 16 after their relief crew arrives, NASA says.
After Apollo 1, the space program continued with a renewed purpose and diligence. Frank Borman, the astronaut on the review committee, became the main liaison with contractor North American Aviation.
Seventeen astronauts were lost in the Apollo 1 fire and the Challenger and Columbia space shuttle disasters. The crew of Apollo 1 during training in Florida in January 1967. From left, Virgil "Gus ...
Apollo 1 CrewApollo 1 astronauts "Gus" Grissom (left), Edward White, and Roger Chaffee pose in front of the Saturn 1 launch vehicle at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. On the morning of ...
50 years ago this Christmas, three Nasa astronauts; Frank Borman, Jim Lovell and Bill Anders became the first people to orbit the Moon. At the time, the Apollo 8 mission was hailed as the greatest ...
In 1972, Apollo 16 astronaut and moon walker Charlie Duke left a family photo on the lunar surface. Today that photo is long gone. But Duke’s visage is heading back to the moon this week ...
Half a century ago, on July 16, 1969, the Apollo 11 astronauts took off for the moon. Neil Armstrong, Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin, and Michael Collins arrived four days later to a place no human being had ...