Apollo

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Jay Barbree (left)and Gus Grissom around the time of the astronaut

Before the Fire

Veteran space reporter Jay Barbree recalls Apollo's darkest day.
November 01, 2007 | By Jay Barbree

In the Museum: Model Employee

May 2007 | By Sara Duncan Widness

A group of astronauts and flight controllers monitor the action in Mission Control during the Apollo 13 mission

Did Ron Howard exaggerate the reentry scene in the movie Apollo 13?

A little bit, maybe, but not much.
May 01, 2007 | By Joe Pappalardo

Footprint at Tranquility Base, July 1969.

My Favorite Artifact: The Apollo Landing Sites

This space historian's ideal exhibit is one that's not quite ready to open.
January 2007 | By Diane Tedeschi

PLSS backpacks

How did the Apollo astronauts toss their spacesuits overboard?

Hint: They kept the most important part.
January 01, 2007 | By Joe Pappalardo

Norman Rockwell's Ghost

The most artistic collaboration of the entire Apollo program.
September 2006 | By Pierre Mion

Living and working in the most remote office in the solar system, the next moon-bound astronauts will rely on a 21st century lunar lander with conveniences only dreamt of by veterans of Apollo.

Son of Apollo

The next lunar lander will be a giant leap ahead of the first.
May 2006 | By Tony Reichhardt

Lockheed Martin has considered both lifting bodies and ballistic capsules for the proposed Crew Exploration Vehicle. The rounded capsule is shown attached to a service module, which provides propulsion.

Retro Rocketeers

If a capsule was good enough to get a crew to the moon, these old-timers say, it's good enough to get a crew back to Earth.
May 2004 | By James Oberg

Artist

The Other Moon Landings

The Soviets lost the moon race but won a dram of glory with the first robotic craft to roam another world.
March 2004 | By Andrew Chaikin

Tom Gold

Shooting the Moon

How a clever camera and its irascible inventor captured the lunar surface—but not the hearts of Apollo astronauts.
May 2002 | By Joseph Bourque

Touchrock

In the Museum: The Rock

The lunar Touchrock is one of the most popular objects in the National Air and Space Museum.
March 2002 | By Bob Craddock

NASA Bug

"We Called It 'The Bug'"

The Apollo Lunar Module wasn't pretty. But it got the job done.
September 2001 | By D.C. Agle


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