The Museum of Flight marks NASA's Day of Remembrance with special displays honoring the crews of Apollo 1, Challenger, and Columbia, remembering the lives lost in three of spaceflight's most tragic missions.

They were the pioneers of space exploration - the 24 Nasa astronauts who travelled to the Moon in the Apollo missions of the 1960s and 1970s. The loss of Apollo 13 commander Jim Lovell, who guided the stricken mission safely back to Earth in 1970, means ...

CAPE KENNEDY, Fla. (WHNT) — 56 years ago today, the Apollo 10 “dress rehearsal” mission launched into space to set up the Apollo 11 moon landing mission a month later. Apollo 10 launched from Cape Kennedy on May 18, 1969. This flight was the first ...

CHICAGO — James Lovell, the commander of Apollo 13 who helped turn a failed moon mission into a triumph of on-the-fly can-do engineering, has died. He was 97. Lovell died Thursday in Lake Forest, Illinois, NASA said in a statement on Friday. "Jim's ...

"Thanks for all your effort," wrote the first moonwalker. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Neil Armstrong was appreciative, but as explained in his handwritten letter, it was too late.

CHICAGO -- James Lovell, the commander of Apollo 13 who helped turn a failed moon mission into a triumph of on-the-fly can-do engineering, has died. He was 97. Lovell died Thursday in Lake Forest, Illinois, NASA said in a statement on Friday. "Jim's ...