Look at a picture of the Apollo 11 launch and you'll probably notice the rocket's pointed tip and the fire coming from the five giant engines in the first stage of the 36-story-tall Saturn V rocket.

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Astronaut Ken "T.K." Mattingly has died. He circled the moon as command module pilot on Apollo 16 and later flew the space shuttle. But he's probably best known for the mission he didn't get to fly: ...

Smylie, with his team, found the "way to make 'this' fit into the hole for 'this,' using nothing but 'that.'" It was about one in the morning, four hours after an explosion tore through the Apollo 13 ...

Former NASA astronaut and United States Navy Rear Admiral Thomas K. "Ken" Mattingly II died at the age of 87 years old on October 31, 2023, per an official statement from NASA. Mattingly was a part of ...

He later orbited the moon, but in 1970 he was scrubbed from the Apollo flight after being exposed to German measles. Then, from mission control, he helped it avert disaster. By Richard Goldstein Ken ...

He led the three-man crew that survived a near catastrophic explosion in space in 1970, and was later immortalized by Tom Hanks in the movie “Apollo 13.” James A. Lovell Jr., right, and Fred W. Haise ...