Free timed-entry passes are required for the Museum in DC. This Apollo Block II spacecraft, consisting of Command and Service Modules 119, was the last of its kind built. Designated as the Skylab ...

The first crewed mission of the Apollo program, Apollo 1 was planned to be a low-Earth orbital test of the command and service module with a crew. Scheduled to launch Feb. 21, 1967, Apollo 1 was to ...

and the three-person Apollo command and service module. The box art appealed to prospective consumers with accurate photographs of each of the spacecraft. Notably, the Mercury spacecraft includes the ...

Seventeen astronauts were lost in the Apollo 1 fire and the Challenger and Columbia space shuttle disasters ... charred interior of the Apollo I command module after the flash fire that killed ...

Meanwhile, Roosa remained in orbit aboard the Command and Service Module, conducting scientific research and capturing images of the Moon, including the site where Apollo 16 would later land.

The three astronauts scheduled to make the first Apollo space flight were killed when a fire swept through the command module. Astronauts Virgil Grissom, Edward White and Roger Chaffee were all ...

On October 11, 1968, NASA redefined the phrase “nothing is impossible” as they sent the first crewed fight to space. The ...

The Apollo 8 mission was a monumental chapter in the space race. The NASA astronauts were the first to orbit the moon and return to earth. The mission was a historic milestone in man’s foray into the ...

NASA's Day of Remembrance honours astronauts who died during Apollo 1, Space Shuttle Challenger ... a fire broke out inside the Apollo 1 command module, killing astronauts Gus Grissom, Ed White ...