From June 1966 through January 1968, NASA sent seven robotic spacecraft to the surface of the Moon as part of…
Apollo 8 mission (December 21–27, 1968) was the first crewed spacecraft to leave low Earth orbit and the first human…
In between December 4 and December 18, 1965, Frank Borman and Jim Lovell spent nearly 14 days in space, making…
In late 1965, Gemini VI, flown by Wally Schirra and Thomas P. Stafford, achieved the first crewed rendezvous with another…
Conspiracy theorists suggested that NASA asked Stanley Kubrick, the director of 2001: A Space Odessey a year prior, to direct the…