IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This Apollo Block II spacecraft, ...

The Apollo 10 Command and Service Modules (CSM) are photographed from the Lunar Module (LM) after CSM/LM separation in lunar orbit. The CSM was about 175 statute miles east of Smyth's Sea and was ...

Fifty years ago today, three American astronauts died in a sudden, uncontrollable cabin fire aboard the Apollo I space capsule. The deaths of Virgil "Gus" Grissom, Ed White, and Roger Chaffee could ...

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Leading up to the historic 1969 Apollo 11 mission, ABC News built a mock Apollo command module to give viewers an inside look at how astronauts would travel to the lunar surface. See more of the ...

Apollo 9 mission played a crucial role in NASA's lunar landing goal, testing essential spacecraft functions in Earth's orbit. Apollo 9 launched 50 years ago, on March 3, 1969, and it might be the most ...

WASHINGTON — Rear Adm. Thomas K. Mattingly is one of our keynote speakers at the 2009 Embedded Systems Conference Silicon Valley Mattingly is perhaps best known for his critical role in the ill-fated ...

On July 26, 1971, at 9:34 am EDT, Apollo 15 lifted off the Pad A of Launch Complex 39 at the Kennedy Space Center on the first true lunar exploration mission. Using an improved Lunar Module, the ninth ...