Tom Hanks, Kevin Bacon, Bill Paxton, and Gary Sinise repeated this 80 times per shooting day to capture the required footage ...

NASA, deceived by results from weightlessness simulations aboard its KC-135 aircraft that lasted a ... Gemini 12 spacewalks launched NASA into the Apollo era, confident that EVA was doable.

The Boeing KC-135, nicknamed Stratotanker is an aerial refueling aircraft that has been in continuous service with the USAF for over 60 years with over 800 examples of the C-135 series built.

At the end of March, the Indian Air Force (IAF) signed a contract with U.S.-based company Metrea to provide support for pilot training using its commercial KC-135 tanker aircraft. The deal includes ...

"I guess that was our 15 minutes of fame," said Smylie in a 1999 interview with a NASA historian. "If you read the book and look at the movie ["Apollo 13"], it sounds like I did all of that.

Apollo 8's successful mission paved the way for Apollo 11 to fulfill U.S. President John F. Kennedy's goal of landing a man on the Moon before the end of the decade. NASA (The National Aeronautics and ...

During the Apollo 17 Mission's first extravehicular activity (EVA ... and Space Subcommittee of the United States Senate Committee on Commerce. NASA (The National Aeronautics and Space Administration) ...

Older refueling tankers like the KC-10 Extender and KC-135 Stratotanker require boom operators to look through a window in the back while steering a boom into the receiving aircraft. KC-135 boom ...