The spacesuit worn by the first Briton in space, the Russian capsule that brought Britain's first professional astronaut back to Earth, and the only flown-to-the-moon Apollo command module to be on ...

Look at a picture of the Apollo 11 launch and you'll probably notice the rocket's pointed tip and the fire coming from the five giant engines in the first stage of the 36-story-tall Saturn V rocket.

This Smithsonian Snapshot marks the May 18, 1969, launch of the Apollo 10 mission. The Apollo 10 spacecraft launched from Cape Kennedy at 12:49 p.m. EST with commander Thomas Stafford, command module ...

Chromogenic color photograph printed on fiber-based photographic paper with "A Kodak Paper" watermark; Black and white photograph printed on fiber-based photographic paper with "A Kodak Paper" ...

Apollo 10 Command Module The only humans on Earth who can begin to comprehend the speeds of the fastest human-made objects in space might be the crew of Apollo 10. Apollo 10's crew was the first to ...

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 ...