space-history

The first person of Mexican birth to fly in space was Rodolfo Neri Vela, a Mexican physicist and astronaut who flew aboard NASA’s Space Shuttle Atlantis on mission STS-61-B in...

Apollo 13 launched on April 11, 1970, with the goal of landing on the Moon in the Fra Mauro highlands, the same target planned for Apollo 14. Two days into the flight, an oxygen...

In April 1970, Apollo 13 set out to land on the Moon but an onboard explosion on April 13 turned the mission into a tense survival challenge that never landed. Often described a...

Neil Armstrong, the first person to walk on the Moon, died on August 25, 2012, at age 82 from complications following a cardiovascular surgical procedure. The immediate cause wa...

Neil Armstrong was 38 years old when he stepped onto the Moon on July 20, 1969. He was born on August 5, 1930, and commanded NASA’s Apollo 11 mission, which landed at 20:17 UT...

On April 13, 1970, an oxygen tank explosion crippled Apollo 13 en route to the Moon and created an urgent operational, engineering, and financial challenge for NASA. The term Ap...

On Apollo 13, the crew was commanded by James Lovell, piloted the Command Module by Jack Swigert, and flew the Lunar Module as Lunar Module Pilot Fred Haise. Launched on April 1...

Laika, the Soviet space dog launched on Sputnik 2 on 3 November 1957, died in orbit shortly after liftoff from overheating and stress, aged approximately three years at the time...