WASHINGTON, Oct 18 (Reuters) - James McDivitt, a former U.S. astronaut who commanded some of NASA's earliest and most ambitious missions in space, died in his sleep last week at age 93, NASA said in a ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — James A. McDivitt, who commanded the Apollo 9 mission testing the first complete set of equipment to go to the moon, has died. He was 93. McDivitt was also the commander of 1965's ...

Apollo 9 commander Jim McDivitt, as seen on board the command module "Gumdrop" in March 1969. Former NASA astronaut James McDivitt, who commanded the first U.S. mission to conduct a spacewalk before ...

James A. McDivitt played a "critical role in landing the first humans on the Moon," according to NASA Bailey Richards is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2023 and ...

FULL STORY: Apollo 9 Astronaut Rusty Schweickart Lists His Butter-Yellow Bay Area Home for $2.5 Million—Complete With Space-Inspired Touches Schweickart, 89, from New Jersey, joined NASA in 1963, ...

COA Snapshot is a monthly profile of City of Amarillo officials and/or employees. AMARILLO – In 1961, when President John F. Kennedy challenged the United States to go to the moon by the end of the ...

TUCSON, AZ — James A. McDivitt, who commanded the Apollo 9 mission testing the first complete set of equipment to go to the moon, has died. He was 93. McDivitt was also the commander of 1965’s Gemini ...

WASHINGTON — James A. McDivitt, who commanded the Apollo 9 mission testing the first complete set of equipment to go to the moon, has died. He was 93. McDivitt was also the commander of 1965’s Gemini ...