The Apollo program is arguably the most famous achievement of the United States regime, but how much do you really know about ...

“Gene wanted some kind of symbol for his team to rally ... Kranz went on to serve as flight director for Apollo 17 (December 7-19, 1972), the final mission in the lunar landing series, then ...

Early Apollo Missions: Earth Orbit Apollo missions flew unmanned until October 11, 1968, when Wally Schirra, Donn Eisele and Walt Cunningham orbited the earth for ten days in an Apollo command ...

Once the mission for Apollo 8 was reconfigured ... Snoopy had become the symbol of the Apollo program: the likeness of the ingratiating cartoon beagle was on posters adorning the walls of hundreds ...

When the first Apollo mission to carry astronauts to orbit launched on October 11, 1968, everyone at NASA sighed in relief. Apollo 7 rose on a pillar of flame from Kennedy Space Center’s Pad 34 ...

Armstrong's note and the mission patch proposal that ... One of McClelland's pencil drawings for Apollo 11 shows a circular patch with the astronaut symbol at its center flagged by the Mercury ...