Apollo 9 astronaut and longtime Sonoma resident Rusty Schweickart spoke to a sold- out crowd after the Sonoma International Film Festival’s screening of “Apollo 1” on Saturday, March 22.

The documentary tells the story of Gus Grissom, Ed White and Roger Chaffee, who died after a fire erupted in their spacecraft on the launch pad.

Though NASA expected their complicated ... Roger Chaffee had been selected as the crew for Apollo 1, the first flight of the next generation of spacecraft succeeding the Gemini program.

Keywords manned space flight, Saturn vehicle, Apollo spacecraft, NASA, lunar orbit rendezvous, astronaut selection, rocket technology, spacecraft development, 1961-1962, space exploration Email us ...

A model of the Orion ... the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing, NASA confirmed that work on the Orion crew vehicle is complete. The reusable capsule, designed to carry four to six ...