On this day in aviation and space history, 57 years ago (October 10, 1968), NASA launched Apollo 7-the first successful crewed mission of the Apollo program. At precisely 15:02:45 UTC, a Saturn IB ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Commander Gene Cernan, the last person to walk on the moon, during NASA's final Apollo lunar landing mission, in December 1972. - ...

NASA asked James W. Head III to work with astronauts selected for the first manned mission to orbit the moon since the end of the Apollo program Unlike Apollo’s “fast and furious” race to the moon ...