Similar criticisms were levied at the Apollo program during the 1960s. Such sentiment likely led to President Lyndon B. Johnson’s decision not to fund NASA’s more ambitious efforts ...
Three Apollo I astronauts Rogers Chaffee, Edward White and Gus Grissom die due to a flash fire at a grounded space capsule in Cape Canaveral, [...] ...
in Houston, Texas put together a NASA contractor report titled, "Where No Flag Has Gone Before: Political and Technical Aspects of Placing a Flag on the Moon." Platoff explains that Apollo 11's ...
CAPE KENNEDY -- America's first three Apollo astronauts died only 218 feet ... at 1:55 a.m. EST and taken to a dispensary at the base. NASA said that assistant director for manned spaceflight ...
NASA's Apollo 1, Challenger and Columbia tragedies remind Andrew Allen of the science fiction movie "The Day the Earth Stood Still," where Americans later recall what they were doing and what they ...