The journey to the moon and successful landing on the lunar surface. One of the astronauts stayed in orbit in the Command/Service Module (CSM) and the other two astronauts landed on the moon in the ...

The TLI placed Apollo on a "free-return trajectory" - often illustrated as a figure of eight shape. This course would have harnessed the power of the Moon's gravity to propel the spacecraft back ...

For that reason, NASA made photography a high priority during the Apollo missions, redesigning cameras that could operate in the punishing environment of space ... all of its power and took ...

Crewed by Nasa astronauts Jim Lovell, Jack Swigert and Fred Haise, Apollo 13 was supposed to be the third American mission to land on the lunar surface. During the journey to the Moon, an ...

This same middle-child invisibility syndrome can be applied to the Apollo 12 mission. How so ... SCE was to have it make use of an auxiliary power source, and a switch existed to allow the ...

Frank Borman, commander of Apollo 8, wrote in his autobiography, "The NASA of more recent years got the idea that you could put almost any highly intelligent person into a spacecraft and qualify ...

Since March 1965, the Gemini astronauts have made ten manned flights, rendezvoused ten times with target vehicles, docked nine times, and set a host of other space records. They have also proved ...

On Jan. 27, 1967, pioneering Apollo ... Unit executive officer, hailed Chaffee as a hero. "Roger Chaffee would prove himself most worthy of the title of astronaut — not by flying in space ...