(WHNT) — 56 years ago today, the Apollo 10 “dress rehearsal” mission launched into space to set up the Apollo 11 moon ... eight-hour lunar orbit of the separated lunar module, or LM, and ...

On July 20, 1969, Aldrin and Apollo 11 commander Neil Armstrong achieved humanity's first landing on another celestial body, landing NASA's lunar module "Eagle" at Tranquility Base. Armstrong then ...

Tiny glass beads formed in the fires of explosive volcanic eruptions on the moon, and brought back to Earth by Apollo 17, ...

Rosenwald Ed Smylie, the NASA official who led a team of engineers that cobbled together an apparatus made of cardboard, plastic bags and duct tape that saved the Apollo 13 crew in 1970 after an ...

They returned to Earth (together with command module pilot Michael Collins ... "examining the ups and downs of the Apollo 11 mission." As the podcast unfolds, listeners will hear Aldrin as ...

NASA crew systems chief Ed Smylie shows the work that he and his team did in April 1970 to jury rig a solution for scrubbing carbon dioxide from the air in the Apollo 13 lunar module.

During the infamous Apollo 13 mission, he and a team of engineers in NASA’s Mission Control found the solution to the lunar module’s scrubbing system, which was starting to lose capacity to provide ...