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Apollo 1 film pays tribute to NASA's fallen heroes on Day of Remembrance

On the annual Day of Remembrance, "Apollo 1," a film that highlights a NASA tragedy during the race to the moon, was showcased.

Remembering Apollo 13’s Jim Lovell, the Most Down-to-Earth Astronaut

Once America's most experienced astronaut, Apollo 13's Jim Lovell, who died at 97, was the first to visit the moon twice.
WHNT

56 years ago, Huntsville-designed Saturn V rocket sent Apollo 10 into space for ‘dress rehearsal’ mission

CAPE KENNEDY, Fla. (WHNT) — 56 years ago today, the Apollo 10 “dress rehearsal” mission launched into space to set up the Apollo 11 moon landing mission a month later. Apollo 10 launched from Cape ...
The New York Times

A Handshake in Orbit 50 Years Ago Transformed the Space Race

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 ...