Michigan is sure to see the Apollo Command Module flanking the front entrance. Right now it’s being used as a different kind of capsule: a time capsule they’ll open in 2076 (the American ...

listen Apollo VII was the first test drive of the Apollo spacecraft, limited to Earth ... on the Gulf of Mexico and the comparatively low angle of the sun create the mood of a tropical sundown ...

The part of the Apollo spacecraft designed to return the astronauts ... some of the "fish-eye" effect resulting from the wide angle lens that was needed to capture events in such a confined ...

Fifty years on, the Apollo Moon programme is probably still humankind's single greatest technological achievement. On 16 July 1969, astronauts Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins were ...

Comprised of three rocket stages, Saturn V featured a small Apollo capsule at ... This maneuver involves the spacecraft ...

Gus Grissom, Ed White and Roger Chaffee had been selected as the crew for Apollo 1, the first flight of the next generation of spacecraft succeeding the Gemini program. On January 27, 1967 ...

But Apollo 12 landed close to a scientific target. That target was a robotic lander called Surveyor 3. Scientists wanted to look at Surveyor 3 to see how well the spacecraft lasted on the moon ...

Software for computers aboard the Apollo spacecraft and in mission control ... coming in at the wrong angle could mean burning up in the Earth's atmosphere, or skipping off the atmosphere and ...

We assumed Soyuz capsules splashdown somewhere near Russia just like the iconic images of Apollo capsules. While they can land in water, their 13 target landing sites are all on land in the ...

Courtesy photo Estella Koch helps to prepare the Apollo capsule for transportation to the restoration location. A 9,000-pound cone-shaped hunk of metal rusting away on a Mercer County farm for ...