Early Apollo Missions: Earth Orbit Apollo missions flew unmanned until October 11, 1968, when Wally Schirra, Donn Eisele and ...

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“Fire in the spacecraft!” is a distress call the National Aeronautics and Space Administration hopes never to hear again. In the aftermath of last January’s Apollo fire, NASA is spending more than ...

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 ...