NASA's requested funding was spent on the Great Society, including building rapid transit system in several cities ...

There’s an Apollo module ... than its space program origins. Everyone who visits the Van Andel Museum Center in Grand Rapids, Michigan is sure to see the Apollo Command Module flanking the ...

Commander Virgil ‘Gus’ Grissom, America’s second man in space ... when rescuers reached Apollo 1, five minutes after Chaffee’s initial shout. The command module, dimly lit by flickering ...

The three astronauts scheduled to make the first Apollo space flight were killed when a fire swept through the command module. Astronauts Virgil Grissom, Edward White and Roger Chaffee were all ...

Once in space, the astronauts escaped Earth orbit ... surface of another planetary body (another first), rejoined the command module orbiting roughly 60 miles above the lunar surface, and then ...