At the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, Skylab 4 commander Gerald Carr visits the duplicate of the spacecraft he once called home.
Blast off on a four-part journey through time and space as we explore our history in the stars and the voyages to come.
On April 14th, 1970, astronauts Fred Haise, Jack Swigert, and Jim Lovell are two days into the third moon-landing attempt on Apollo 13, when something goes terribly wrong.
In January 2003, Space Shuttle Columbia launched with a crew of seven on a two-week mission. On the return flight, damaged heat shields allowed gas to penetrate the wing, and the spacecraft was destro more »
At the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, Skylab 4 commander Gerald Carr visits the duplicate of the spacecraft he once called home.
From building a resupply station in low Earth orbit, to mining minerals on nearby asteroids, private enterprise is already planning moneymaking missions to space.