Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Three men look through a frosted window. one holds a camera. Houston, we have a new reason to celebrate 1995's "Apollo 13" movie.

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 ...

Apollo 13 came close to tragedy in 1970, but a new documentary finds hope for our planet in the failed Moon mission. Reading time 4 minutes It’s been more than 60 years since Yuri Gagarin became the ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — Jan. 27 is a dark day in the world of space exploration. It’s the anniversary of the Apollo 1 fire that killed three NASA astronauts, including Grand Rapids native Roger B ...

One historical tidbit worth another look in the aftermath of astronaut Neil Armstrong' death on Saturday at the age of 82: The text of the speech President Richard Nixon had his staff prepare in the ...

US astronaut Jim Lovell, the commander of the Apollo 13 Moon mission which nearly ended in disaster in 1970 after a mid-flight explosion, has died at the age of 97, NASA announced Friday. The former ...

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER — It has been nearly 20 years since the seven crew aboard Space Shuttle Columbia didn’t make it home, and NASA leaders gathered Thursday to commemorate their lives as well as ...

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