NASA’s first Saturn I rocket launched on October 27, 1961, demonstrating heavy-lift capabilities and initiating the Saturn program that ultimately enabled crewed Apollo missions to the Moon.

Your obituary “James Arthur Lovell Jr., 1928-2025” (Review & Outlook, Aug. 9) rightly highlights the Apollo 13 near-disaster and the heroism, resilience and competence of those who saved the ship and ...

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James Lovell, a member of humanity’s first trip to the moon and commander of NASA’s ill-fated Apollo 13 mission, has died at the age of 97. Lovell’s death on Thursday was announced by the space agency ...

The Ranger program, initiated during the Space Race, aimed to achieve lunar landings and provide site surveys for future crewed missions. Early Ranger missions (1-6) experienced failures or ...

San Diego Air & Space Museum. (Photo by Chris Stone/Times of San Diego) Those who planned, ran, and piloted the Apollo Program will be venerated Saturday at the San Diego Air & Space Museum for the ...

Jeff Hessel, a resident of a 55+ retirement community, shares his experiences working at Cape Canaveral during the Space Race. Hessel's presentations cover historical facts, personal anecdotes, and ...

Wickliffe Public Library will be hosting a talk on “The Apollo Space Program” at 7 p.m. June 12. Between 1969 and 1972, 21 American astronauts left Earth’s orbit and voyaged to the moon as part of ...

STARKVILLE, Miss.—Robert Edwin “Ed” Smylie of Crossville, Tennessee, a Mississippi State alumnus who played a pivotal role in the Apollo 13 mission’s success, died Monday [April 21]. Born in Lincoln ...

SHAWNEE TOWNSHIP — Apollo Career Center Adult Education is launching a newly approved Apollo School of Cosmetology. The 15-month evening program will run 3:30 to 10 p.m. Mondays through Thursdays and ...

We explore the dramatic story of NASA's Apollo Program, beginning with President Kennedy's ambitious deadline for a lunar landing in response to Soviet success with Sputnik and cosmonaut Yuri Gargarin ...

Although the US’ Moon landings were mostly made famous by the fact that it featured real-life human beings bunny hopping across the lunar surface, they weren’t there just for a refreshing stroll over ...