This story originally posted Sept. 17, 2016. It is being republished as part of the Chronicle's 125 series. By the time Apollo 13 launched in April 1970, Americans already had walked on the moon twice ...
The four astronauts embarking on NASA's lunar flyby became on Monday the humans to travel farthest from our planet, as they begin documenting areas of the moon never before seen by the naked eye. The ...
The strange part of the Apollo 13 story I keep coming back to is this. The spacecraft carried a computer with a 2.048 MHz clock. It also carried a mechanical wristwatch, a chronograph Omega first ...
Early Apollo Missions: Earth Orbit Apollo missions flew unmanned until October 11, 1968, when Wally Schirra, Donn Eisele and Walt Cunningham orbited the earth for ten days in an Apollo command-service ...
Artemis II's crew has travelled the farthest distance into space from Earth, breaking the record set by the Apollo 13 mission ...
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