PBS6y
The Apollo Missions
After Apollo 1, the space program continued with a renewed ... the contractors made "maybe a thousand" top to bottom revisions and the spacecraft improved exponentially. Borman believed that ...
Space.com3d
At 60 years, monument to NASA's Project Mercury still stands, but what of its time capsule?
A 60-year-old tribute to America's first human spaceflight program is standing up to the test of time, but what about the ...
National Geographic news4y
The future of spaceflight—from orbital vacations to humans on Mars
Apollo 1 CrewApollo 1 astronauts "Gus" Grissom (left ... Currently being built and tested, Orion—like Crew Dragon and Starliner—is a space capsule similar to the spacecraft of the Mercury ...
New Scientist5y
The first space walk
On 18 March 1965 Soviet cosmonaut Alexei Leonov became the first person to leave a space capsule and ... in a launch-pad fire that consumed the Apollo 1 mission, the first crewed mission of ...