At the successful conclusion of Apollo 13, however, relief replaced celebration; the white vest stayed on.) “I started wearing a vest during Gemini 4, and it was an immediate hit,” Kranz recalls.

Spencer Green / AP Images In 1955, Emmett Till—a 14-year-old African-American visiting Mississippi from Chicago—was murdered after whistling at a white woman ... topped casket, so the world ...

It provides an in-depth look at the lives and families of the three Apollo 1 astronauts — Roger Chaffee, Virgil “Gus” Grissom and Edward White — who were killed when a fire swept through ...