The Apollo 13 mission was to land on the moon for a third, but it soon turned into a rescue mission. An oxygen tank exploded aboard the spacecraft, causing both the crew on board and ground control to ...

It may be easy to forget, but Apollo 11 didn't have just 10 test flights before it. The Apollo flights before No. 11--when Armstrong, Aldrin and Collins were strapped in for the ride--were all ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On April 4, 1968, NASA launched the final uncrewed test flight of its Saturn V rocket. The Apollo 6 mission demonstrated that the ...

April 10, 1949 marked the first flight of the Armstrong Whitworth AW.55 Apollo, a British turboprop airliner that ultimately failed to enter production.