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 ...

Look at a picture of the Apollo 11 launch and you'll probably notice the rocket's pointed tip and the fire coming from the five giant engines in the first stage of the 36-story-tall Saturn V rocket.

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. When an explosion rocked Apollo 13's service module on April 13, 1970, the vehicle's vital role, ...

More than 40 years ago, the Tulsa division of North American Rockwell Corp. received its first contracts in the Apollo moon program. North American, the prime Apollo contractor, would later evolve ...