On this date, Jan. 4, 1970, NASA officially canceled the Apollo 20 mission and transferred the Saturn V rocket that would have sent astronauts to the moon to the Skylab mission. NASA, in a ...
Overall view of the Mission Operations Control Room in the Mission Control Center, Building 30, on the third day of the Apollo 8 lunar orbit mission. Seen on the television monitor is a picture of ...
NASA pivoted and sent the Apollo 8 crew all the way to the moon without a lunar module on the first manned flight of the massive Saturn V rocket. This accelerated timeline ended up keeping President ...