IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Apollo 16, the fifth manned lunar ...

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 ...

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 ...

Grimy, sweaty, and dust-streaked from the gray sand of the lunar desert, Apollo 17 Commander Gene Cernan looked every inch the explorer. Fifty years ago, Cernan and Lunar Module Pilot Jack Schmitt ...

In the 1960s, North American Aviation was asked to work out how astronauts could be rescued if they became stranded on or ...

Inside mission control during the dramatic rescue of Apollo 13. On April 17, 1970, the command module for the Apollo 13 spacecraft splashed down into the Pacific Ocean near the Samoan Islands with ...