CHURCH HILL, Tenn. (WJHL) – One of the original members of the Apollo and Skylab Astronaut Rescue Team remembers the Apollo 12 launch on November 14, 1969. He has written a book chronicling the ...

Nov. 7, 2019 - William D. “Bill” Killen, National Fire Heritage Center President/CEO and past president of the International Association of Fire Chiefs, has authored and published "The History of the ...

The recent anniversaries of the Apollo moon missions loomed large, but another milestone achieved half a century ago also deserves attention: On May 14, 1973, the United States launched Skylab, its ...

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The Skylab Medical Program involved a series of missions where astronauts conducted extensive biomedical experiments in a weightless environment. The crew launched in an Apollo Command Module and ...

NASA astronaut Alan Bean, the fourth person to walk on the moon, has died at the age of 86. Bean's family has released the following statement on NASA's website: Family Release Regarding the Passing ...

Rumors of a “mutiny” that took place aboard the Skylab space station in the 1970s have persisted for nearly half of a century. A cursory search turns up dozens of references to the event, with many ...

Space stations, big metal tubes in low-Earth orbit pressurized to roughly the same atmospheric pressure you'd find on sea level so a bunch of squishy, fragile meat sacks can conduct science ...