On July 24, 1969, Dick Powers was a 23-year-old Navy lieutenant on the Apollo 11 Recovery ship USS Hornet. Picked by the carrier’s captain to serve as the aide to President Nixon, Powers recounts the ...

NASA’s Apollo missions in the 1960s and ’70s served not only to land Americans on the lunar surface but to answer key questions about the moon that could be answered only by going there. As often ...

Amazon.com founder and the man behind Blue Origin, Jeff Bezos, has recovered parts of the F-1 rocket engines used in the Apollo missions. Recovered by remotely operated vehicles (ROVs) from the ...

This collection consists of ten 8.5 by 10.5 inch halftone screened offset litho prints showing Apollo 13 recovery operations in the Pacific Ocean on April 17, 1970. Images show the Command Module; the ...

NASA’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley invites members of the media to interview NASA experts and retired NASA employees of the Apollo program on the 50 th anniversary of the ...

Out in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, descending from the sky, were three orange parachutes carrying a burned-up space capsule, three Americans and the bookend to the most momentous event in human ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. This collection consists of a letter, in a commemorative postal cover, written by Ernest Frederick Fearn on board the USS Arlington while waiting ...

Remember when we told you that Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos had recovered the Apollo 11 engines? In July 2013, conservationists found the serial number to confirm that yes, it really was Apollo 11 and not ...

ALAMEDA, Calif. -- The crew of the USS Hornet had just finished a tour of duty destroying mines in Vietnam and when it got the call in early June of 1969. It was a totally different assignment that ...

Nightly Films looks back at NBC’s coverage of NASA’s successful rescue of Apollo 13 astronauts, James Lovell, Fred Haise and Jack Swigert. President Nixon welcomes the astronauts home, awarding them ...