On Dec. 7, 1972, NASA launched the last crew to land on the moon with the Apollo 17 mission. Three NASA astronauts flew to the moon that day: Gene Cernan was the commander, Ronald Evans was the ...
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The Soviet rocket explosion that nearly changed Apollo 11, inside the N1 moon booster disaster at Baikonur
In July 1969, the Soviet N1 moon rocket detonated at Baikonur just days before Apollo 11, exposing how close, and how fragile, the Moon Race really was. Then an even darker launchpad catastrophe in ...
Ron Evans fell sound asleep in the command module of Apollo 17 when he and his crewmates were waiting to take off. It wasn’t easy to doze off in an Apollo spacecraft, least of all when you’re flat on ...
The Apollo-Soyuz Test Project brought Soviet cosmonauts and NASA astronauts together in the first international human spaceflight. A 1973 artist’s concept of the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project, with the ...
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