Dec. 11 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1816, Indiana joined the United States as its 19th state. In 1936, Britain's King Edward VIII abdicated to marry American divorcee Wallis Warfield Simpson.

Step inside a fascinating space exploration museum and join us on an immersive journey through the history of moon missions. Explore iconic artifacts like the Apollo 11 Command Module Columbia, a ...

Not much of the art at the Ripon Model Railroad Club is hanging from the walls. The art is in the 3D buildings, landscapes and dioramas on the train layout itself. The first thing people notice as ...

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Apollo 7, crewed by Walter Schirra Jr., Donn Eisele, and Walter Cunningham, represented the first manned American spaceflight 21 months after the Apollo 1 fatal accident. Launching on October 11, 1968 ...

In a genius twist – just as cunning as we've come to expect from the makers of the three seasons of The Traitors so far – the murder we expected to happen was drawn out exquisitely over the course of ...

The August 7 death of astronaut James Lovell, best known as commander of the famed Apollo 13 spacecraft, has rekindled interest in legendary aerospace figure John Leland (Lee) Atwood of Valley Center ...

WASHINGTON, Aug 8 (Reuters) - American astronaut Jim Lovell, commander of the failed 1970 mission to the moon that nearly ended in disaster but became an inspirational saga of survival and the basis ...

CHICAGO (AP) — James Lovell, the commander of Apollo 13 who helped turn a failed moon mission into a triumph of on-the-fly can-do engineering, has died. He was 97. Lovell died Thursday in Lake Forest, ...

Lovell guided Apollo 13 back to Earth after a malfunction onboard. Jim Lovell, the commander of the famed Apollo 13 mission, has died, according to NASA. He was 97. "We are saddened by the passing of ...