Frances 'Poppy' Northcutt speaks with a NASA colleague in Houston, Texas, circa 1969.TRW/PhotoQuest—Getty Images The boundary broken by the Apollo 11 astronauts, when they became the first humans to ...

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla – Before the rockets. Before the moon landings. There were the names. NASA’s most famous lunar program, Apollo, was named after the Greek god of the sun — a symbol of light, ...

Apollo is remembered for Neil Armstrong stepping onto the Moon, but the program was built through a long chain of dangerous tests, failures, fixes, and near disasters. Before Apollo 11, NASA had to ...

Fred Cordia was an Apollo 11 go guy. Four days before Neil Armstrong stepped onto the Sea of Tranquility, Cordia sat at a front-row console in the Kennedy Space Center telling himself to stay calm.