One of the largest machines ever built, the 363-foot rocket was as tall as a 36-story building. Personnel within the Launch Control Center watch the Apollo 11 liftoff. The LCC is located 3.5 ...

Fifty-five years ago Saturday, humanity made its first visit to the lunar surface with Apollo 11. Lifting off atop ... program and its Space Launch System (SLS) rocket which aims to propel the ...

With Apollo 11 ... stages of the rocket. These events occurred about ten seconds before the rocket passed through Max-Q, or the area of maximum dynamic pressure. The launch continued, with ...

Rocket launches from Kennedy Space Center or Cape Canaveral, Florida, can typically be seen from Daytona Beach to Melbourne to Vero Beach. Watching a rocket launch ... of the Apollo Beach entrance ...

lift-off on Apollo 11… Tower cleared… She's lifting beautifully into the sky, a typically beautiful Saturn V launch. 16 July 1969. Apollo 11 took-off from the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida ...

Introducing the Apollo 11 Crew: Neil Armstrong (commander ... each detaching after its job is done. The rocket generates 34.5 million newtons of thrust at launch. That’s more power than ...