(L-R) Dr. John H.L. Hansen, Chengzhu Yu, Dr. Abhijeet Sangwan, and Lakshmish Kaushik pose with a model of an astronaut at Johnson Space Center in Houston. The four oversaw the project to archive ...
Three astronauts died in a fire during an Apollo 1 test. The fire was caused by a faulty spacecraft design and pure oxygen atmosphere. The tragedy led to significant safety improvements in spacecraft ...
(Inside Science) — On July 20, 1969, just before 11 p.m. Eastern time, Neil Armstrong planted the first human footprints on another world. It was a defining moment in a journey that had transfixed the ...