Skipping ahead: The third near-fatal space-race disaster was in April 1970, when one of Apollo 13’s oxygen ... of a first-time astronaut named Neil Armstrong, Gemini 8’s crew would have ...

Neil Armstrong was appreciative ... Apollo 9 and the mid-flight explosion-plagued Apollo 13, as well as concept logos for rockets from when McClelland worked at the Martin Company (later Martin ...

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The 'forgotten astronaut' of the 1969 moon landing shared the bizarre way they were treated upon returning to Earth following ...

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This week marks the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission, which first landed American astronauts on the moon's surface. Of the intrepid crew, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin have tended to ...

Neil A. Armstrong ... Gemini 8 was launched on March 16, 1966, and Armstrong performed the first successful docking of two vehicles in space. As spacecraft commander for Apollo 11, the first crewed ...