The model Cronkite used for his broadcast was ... developed the intricate procedures to operate the crippled spacecraft, the Apollo Mission Simulators worked around the clock to validate each ...

As for Eisele, his Apollo 7 reputation and a 1970 divorce—embarrassing for a space agency still determined to point to the astronauts as American-as-apple-pie role models—diminished his ...

The cavernous thermal-vacuum test facility is famous for testing the Apollo spacecraft that traveled to the moon in the 1960s and '70s. The instrument enclosure is designed to protect the ...

The crew of NASA's Apollo 11 mission, from left, Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin, Michael Collins, and Neil Armstrong, pose with a model of the moon ... launch at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral ...