Terrifying audio has resurfaced from inside the space capsule during the Apollo 1 disaster. Apollo 1 became one most infamous space race disasters in which three astronauts lost their lives in a ...

Imagine sitting in a cramped capsule packed with wires, buttons and switches, about to embark on a historic journey with legendary Apollo 11 ... what it was like inside the spacecraft that landed ...

Grissom, third member of the crew, waits inside the spacecraft. Astronauts Lt. Col. Virgil "Gus" Ivan Grissom, Lt.Col. Edward Higgins White II, and Lt. Cdr. Roger Bruce Chaffee enter the Apollo ...

CAPE KENNEDY -- America's first three Apollo astronauts died only 218 feet off the ground Friday night in a blazing explosion inside their space capsule atop its launch pad. An electrical spark ...

Workers at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum uncover astronauts' scribbles that haven't been seen for 40 years. Freelancer Michael Franco writes about the serious and silly sides of ...

taking crews deeper into space than any other spacecraft since Apollo. Orion seats four astronauts -- one more than Apollo. While the design may be the similar, Orion is equipped with technology ...

Anything in the spacecraft that accidentally caught ablaze ... Then came the first call from inside Apollo 1. It was Chaffee’s voice. And it was just one word: “Fire!” Now the calls came ...

The Apollo command module was built to be about 110% of the real thing and could come apart in multiple ways to enable filming both inside and outside the replica spacecraft for the penultimate ...

Workers move a full-scale replica of the Apollo 1 command module into place inside the atrium of Purdue's Neil Armstrong Hall of Engineering on Wednesday (Oct. 17). The capsule, on loan from the ...

Low hopes to peel 400 Ibs. more off Apollo by eliminating the spacecraft’s lead ballast. So critical is the weight factor that even metal brackets inside Apollo are being examined for possible ...

The instrument enclosure of NASA's Near-Earth Object Surveyor was prepared for critical environmental tests inside the historic ... is famous for testing the Apollo spacecraft that traveled ...