Usually in Beyond Apollo I devote most of my attention to technical documents and their historical context. I do not normally focus on press conference transcripts. The 26 January 1967 NASA ...

56 years ago today, NASA’s Surveyor 6 lunar lander made history by conducting the first liftoff from the Moon’s surface as it used its engines to briefly liftoff from the Moon’s surface to a height of ...

A fire in the Apollo 1 command capsule during a test Jan. 27, 1967, killed three astronauts but lessons learned helped put man on the moon.

This 1967 file photo shows the charred interior of the Apollo I spacecraft after a fire which killed astronauts Ed White, Roger Chaffee, and Virgil Grissom on Jan. 27, 1967. A NASA official said ...

A fire in the Apollo 1 command capsule during a test Jan. 27, 1967, killed three astronauts but lessons learned helped put man on the moon.

A fire in the Apollo 1 command capsule during a test Jan. 27, 1967, killed three astronauts but lessons learned helped put man on the moon.

A fire in the Apollo 1 command capsule during a test Jan. 27, 1967, killed three astronauts but lessons learned helped put man on the moon.