Nasa's next-generation crewship has replayed an iconic image first observed by Apollo astronauts in 1968 - "Earthrise".

And wonderfully, you can visit. The aptly named Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex is a full museum, with exhibits including a decommissioned Saturn V rocket, tons of memorabilia, and an actual ...

Michigan is sure to see the Apollo Command Module flanking the front entrance. Right now it’s being used as a different kind of capsule: a time capsule they’ll open in 2076 (the American ...

Courtesy photo Estella Koch helps to prepare the Apollo capsule for transportation to the restoration location. A 9,000-pound cone-shaped hunk of metal rusting away on a Mercer County farm for ...

Gus Grissom, Ed White and Roger Chaffee had been selected as the crew for Apollo 1, the first flight of the next generation of spacecraft succeeding the Gemini program. On January 27, 1967 ...

Fifty years on, the Apollo Moon programme is probably still humankind's single greatest technological achievement. On 16 July 1969, astronauts Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins were ...

Musk has already designed Starship to be big enough to accommodate communal areas and fitness rooms, making space travel far more comfortable than the cramped interior of the Apollo capsule.

The Apollo 7 was the Apollo Program's first successful spacecraft, with its crew of Commander Walter M. Schirra, Command Module Pilot Donn F.Eisele, and R. Walter Cunningham. Each of these ...