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 into orbit.

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These SpaceX photos show its Falcon 9 rocket and Crew Dragon Endurance capsule as they stand atop the launch pad on March 11, ...

A little more than four years after the final Ranger images, Apollo 11 landed the first humans on the moon. The impacts of the Ranger probes left visible craters on the lunar surface, later ...

One small step': A close-up view of an astronaut's bootprint in the lunar soil, photographed with a 70mm lunar surface camera during the Apollo 11 extravehicular activity (EVA) on the moon.