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Apollo is remembered for Neil Armstrong stepping onto the Moon, but the program was built through a long chain of dangerous tests, failures, fixes, and near disasters. Before Apollo 11, NASA had to ...

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Five new galleries open next month as the popular Washington, D.C. museum marks its 50th anniversary on the National Mall.

Though NASA expected their complicated machines would not always work right, the first deaths in the space program still came as a shock -- because the fatal mishap occurred on the ground. Gus Grissom ...

The present image is designated as NAS AAS11-44-6642. As the Earth rose over the surface of the moon, Astronaut Michael Collins photographed the Lunar Module (LM) departing the surface of the moon.

The afternoon crowd in the main plaza of Space Center Houston knew what to expect as they watched Apollo 11’s Lunar Module Eagle spacecraft descend slowly. That wasn’t the case 55 years ago when ...

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