This is NASA’s world-famous countdown clock, the same one seen in countless historic broadcasts of rocket launches. For more than four decades, it stood at the Kennedy Space Center Press Site, ticking ...

United States Space Program Oral History Collection [Kapp] / Series 1: Audio Material is subject to Smithsonian Terms of Use. Should you wish to use NASM material in ...

"Apollo 13" stars Tom Hanks, the late Bill Paxton and Kevin Bacon as three NASA astronauts who must navigate safely back to Earth after their spacecraft encounters troubles on the way to the moon. To ...

Bellcomm, Inc Technical Library Collection / Series III: Manned Space Flight Programs / III.D.: Programs / III.D.3.: Apollo Program / III.D.3.h.: Apollo Launches ...

Before Apollo, there was Gemini, and before Gemini, there was the Mercury program. This episode examines Mercury, the first U.S. program to put a man in space. It looks at the people, such as ...