Ed Smylie, who became a quiet hero of the space age in 1970 when he and his fellow NASA engineers jury-rigged an air filter ...

Apollo 10 launched on a mission to the moon. Apollo 10 was considered a "dress rehearsal" for a lunar landing. It did ...

Apollo 10 “dress rehearsal” mission launched into orbit, to set up the Apollo 11 moon landing mission a month later.

If you’ve seen Tom Hanks’ Apollo 13, you surely remember the scene where a group of guys dump a bunch of junk onto a table to ...

He and his team of NASA engineers jumped into action to help three astronauts bound for the moon. His quick thinking earned ...

From solar probes to deep space missions, these record-breaking human-made objects reached speeds that make bullets and jets look slow by comparison.

They returned to Earth (together with command module pilot Michael Collins) as heroes and were celebrated as they toured around the world. "That's the story you think you know. This is the story you ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. NASA crew systems chief Ed Smylie shows the work that he and his team did in April 1970 to ...

Now on U.S. soil, the module ... as a command and control hub for the space station. It will feature docking ports for spacecraft such as NASA's Orion, logistics vehicles and lunar landers ...

They tested the lunar module’s engines and navigation systems. They also practiced docking and undocking the command module and the lunar module in orbit. (On the fourth day, they took a ...

The lunar module, known as Eagle, was left in lunar orbit after it rendezvoused with the command module Collins was in the next day and Eagle eventually landed back on the moon’s surface.