Click to open image viewer. This Apollo command module pressure model was part of a larger grouping built and used for wind tunnel testing conducted in the development stage of the Apollo program. The ...

James Burke and John Parry report from inside an Apollo space capsule simulator at the NASA space research centre in California. Every effort has been made to ensure these simulated flights are as ...

Click to open image viewer. To protect the Apollo Command Module from the extreme heat of reentry, NASA chose an ablative heat shield composed of a brazed steel honeycomb substructure, a fiberglass ...

Apollo 13 was supposed to be NASA’s third crewed mission to the surface of the moon, but nearly 56 hours into the flight, command module pilot John “Jack” Swigert radioed a troubling message to ...

The Apollo 13 mission remains one of the most dramatic episodes in the history of human spaceflight. Originally planned as NASA’s third mission to land astronauts on the Moon, Apollo 13 instead turned ...