The first manned mission to the moon ... Personnel within the Launch Control Center watch the Apollo 11 liftoff. The LCC is located 3.5 miles from the launch pad. The Saturn V rocket climbs ...

CAPE KENNEDY -- America's first three Apollo astronauts died only 218 feet off the ground Friday night in a blazing explosion inside their space capsule atop its launch pad. An electrical spark ...

The Soviet Union immediately announced that it too would launch ... manned mission receded. The United States finally abandoned the MOL program in June 1969, one month before NASA's Apollo 11 ...

Given that there have been only six manned moon landings, and that almost all of the hardware that started on the launch pad was discarded ... like this open source Apollo Guidance Computer ...

In October 1960, Low made the first official proposal that Apollo’s aim should be to land Americans on the moon. As NASA’s Washington-based chief of manned-space-flight programming, ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, FL -- On January 27, 1967, tragedy struck on the launch pad at Cape Kennedy's Launch Complex during a preflight test. The three astronauts scheduled to make the first Apollo space ...

The VSU Planetarium’s “Dawn of the Space Age” program will begin with a look at the February sky, including planets, stars, ...

Neil Armstrong was appreciative, but it was too late. The Apollo 11 crew had a design for the first moon landing. Armstrong's ...

The Apollo 5 mission tested the Lunar Module in space for the first time, which was crucial to the future manned missions to the moon. Also, on this date in 1992, Dr. Roberta Bondar became the ...

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