On. Oct. 11, 1968, Apollo 7 launched into space with NASA astronauts Wally Schirra, Donn Eisele and Walter Cunningham. This was the first mission of the Apollo program that carried a crew into space.

The proud Cleveland native was one of NASA's most traveled astronauts as he went to space a remarkable four times. He was on board Gemini 7, Gemini 12, Apollo 8 and the infamous Apollo 13. Jim was ...

Famed Apollo astronaut Jim Lovell passed away on August 7 in Lake Forest, Illinois, at the age of 97. Jim Lovell was a key figure in NASA’s history, known for his roles in the Gemini and Apollo space ...

Director Ron Howard's 1995 space rescue thriller lives on with a special anniversary edition for one week only starting Sept. 19.

You can listen to episode 1 here. For more, search for 13 Minutes Presents: The Space Shuttle, wherever you get your BBC podcasts. This is a BBC Audio Science Unit production for the BBC World Service ...

On October 10, 1968, NASA launched Apollo 7, the first successful crewed mission of the Apollo program. The 11-day flight ...

These photos are out of this world. Thousands of images from the Apollo missions have been curated and re-released in a new gallery on Flickr. The images hail directly from NASA but have been ...

On this date in 1975, a Soviet and an American shook hands. Even for the time period, this wouldn’t have been a big deal if it wasn’t for the fact that it happened approximately 220 kilometers (136 ...

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It's "we've had" not "we have". And it was spoken by Jack Swigert, not Jim Lovell. I guess we’re all pretty inured to Hollywood making historical mistakes on film. Almost every film that purports to ...