Ed Smylie, who became a quiet hero of the space age in 1970 when he and his fellow NASA engineers jury-rigged an air filter ...

Apollo 13, a drama that riveted the world at the ... the first American to orbit Earth on Feb. 20, 1962. In 1969, Neil Armstrong, the commander of Apollo 11, became the first human to walk on ...

This week marks the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission, which first landed American astronauts on the moon's surface. Of the intrepid crew, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin have tended to ...

Bernard Harris, the first Black astronaut to perform a spacewalk, took center stage at the 2025 U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame induction ceremony on May 31, where he received his induction medal and ...

After working in the petrochemical industry, he devoted himself to environmental activism — and to creating an inclusive ...

Four-time spaceflight veteran Peggy Whitson had a good excuse for not showing up Saturday for her own induction ceremony to ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Two pioneering NASA astronauts — Dr. Bernard Harris and Dr. Peggy Whitson — are the newest members of the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame. Dr. Bernard Harris and Dr. Peggy Whitson ...

Heaven’s Gate When police arrived at a sprawling house in California in the United States one day in 1997 they found a ...

Smylie always played down his ingenuity and his role in saving the Apollo 13 crew. "It was pretty straightforward, even though we got a lot of publicity for it and Nixon even mentioned our names ...

When Apollo 13 astronaut Jim Lovell said, "Houston, we've had a problem," it was Ed Smylie who had the solution. "CBS Evening News" co-anchor has the story after Smylie's death at 95. House ...