Apollo is remembered for Neil Armstrong stepping onto the Moon, but the program was built through a long chain of dangerous tests, failures, fixes, and near disasters. Before Apollo 11, NASA had to ...

Click to open image viewer. Apollo 9 was launched aboard a Saturn V on March 3, 1969 from Kennedy Space Center. The crewmembers, Commander James McDivitt, Command Module Pilot David Scott, and Lunar ...

Click to open image viewer. This scale model (1:40) of portions of the Skylab and Apollo Telescope Mount docking system is an early concept model. This model has the command module attached at right ...

AT first it was only a tiny speck in the sky. Then, as Astronaut David Scott peered through the window of Apollo 9’s orbiting command module, the speck grew into the most ungainly manned craft ever ...

This video explores the Apollo Lunar Module, the spacecraft that successfully landed astronauts on the moon. The Lunar Module consisted of two stages: the ascent stage and the descent stage. Both ...