It was the opening scene of the 1995 feature film "Apollo 13" and was recreated for the Neil Armstrong biopic "First Man" more than 20 years later. It was one of the catalysts for the Soviet Union to ...

Born from Cold War rivalry yet destined to unite humanity, the Apollo program became the most extraordinary journey ever undertaken. From the tragedy of Apollo 1 to the triumph of Apollo 11 and the ...

The film highlights the journey of Major Donn Eisele, an astronaut who was part of the first Apollo mission to explore the Moon. It chronicles his path from graduating from Annapolis in 1952, through ...

In Saturday’s Globe, a review by Mark Feeney of a documentary about Apollo 13 mentioned three Apollo missions that “everyone” remembers: Apollo 11, Apollo 14, and Apollo 13 (“On Netflix, revisiting ...

Frank Borman, who commanded two early NASA missions including the first to orbit the moon, has died at age 95. In a statement, NASA said Borman died Nov. 7 in Billings, Mont. after a stroke. His death ...