On his last visit home to Texas on Jan. 22, 1967, astronaut Virgil “Gus” Grissom grabbed a lemon off a tree in his backyard. His wife asked what he planned to do with it. “I’m going to hang it on that ...
2019-04-13T22:29:31-04:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/1ba/20190413223444003_hd.jpgFarouk El-Baz is a space scientist who trained astronauts and led the lunar ...
Though NASA expected their complicated machines would not always work right, the first deaths in the space program still came as a shock -- because the fatal mishap occurred on the ground. Gus Grissom ...
San Diego Air & Space Museum. (Photo by Chris Stone/Times of San Diego) Those who planned, ran, and piloted the Apollo Program will be venerated Saturday at the San Diego Air & Space Museum for the ...
The last surviving astronaut of Apollo 7, NASA’s first successful manned space mission for the Apollo program, died early Tuesday morning in Houston. NASA, in a press release, confirmed the death of ...
A fire in the Apollo 1 command capsule during a countdown test Jan. 27, 1967, killed three astronauts. National Air and Space Museum On his last visit home to Texas on Jan. 22, 1967, astronaut Virgil ...
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