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-service ...

On October 11th, 1968, just 15 months from President Kennedy’s deadline for a moon landing, NASA launched its first Apollo crew into space. Apollo 7’s Wally Schirra, Donn Eisele, and Walter Cunningham ...

Each year, on the last Thursday of January, NASA observes its Day of Remembrance in honor of the astronauts and astronaut candidates who lost their lives in the pursuit of space exploration. From ...

NASA's Apollo 1 tragedy occurred on January 27, 1967, killing astronauts Gus Grissom, Ed White, and Roger Chaffee. The agency annually remembers the Apollo 1 crew, along with the crews of shuttles ...

Through tragedy there is triumph, and a film telling the story of NASA's race to the moon and its first loss, "Apollo 1," illustrated this journey during NASA's annual Day of Remembrance at Kennedy ...

Sheryl Chaffee remembers the January evening when astronaut Mike Collins came to the door and asked to speak with her mother. The two talked in a bedroom of the Chaffee home. Then Collins emerged and ...

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER — It was a cold morning in Florida when the last words heard by any of Space Shuttle Challenger’s crew were uttered by pilot Michael Smith. The seven members of mission 51-L, the ...