A tremendous amount of engineering and creativity went into the successful lunar touchdown of the Apollo 11 mission on July 20, 1969. Here's a look at the development process.

It was the only part of the Apollo 11 spacecraft that came back from the moon. Designing, testing and building it was a monumental task, according to two engineers who were part of the effort.

Alabama and its rocket put Apollo 11, first man on the moon. Updated: Jul. 12, 2019, 11:42 a.m. ... Huntsville had been building rockets for the Army at Redstone since 1950.

Beyond being used to launch Apollo 8 in 1968 and Apollo 11 in 1969, MLP-3 was also used to support the first flight of a Saturn V rocket in 1967, the three crewed launches to the Skylab workshop ...

Apollo 11 Apollo 11: CEO of rocket maker ULA recalls watching Moon landing on TV as a kid. ... Inspired by Apollo 11, it wasn’t long before Bruno was building his own makeshift rockets.

12.8K. Fifty years ago today, the massive Saturn V rocket for the Apollo 11 mission that would fulfill President Kennedy’s goal of “landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to Earth ...

Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos has announced that one of the F-1 rocket engines found by his Bezos Expeditions was indeed part of the Apollo 11 Saturn V rocket that sent the first astronauts to ...

Among the sets is a shuttle, a space station and a deep space rocket. The Lego Creator Expert NASA Apollo 11 Lunar Lander, which measures over 7 inches high and 7 inches deep, will hit Lego stores ...

The Apollo 11 Moon Landing, 50 Years Later Fifty years ago this summer, the first astronauts landed on the moon. ... July 12, 2019 • NASA is building its most powerful rocket ever, ...

Donald Brincka helped build Apollo 11 rocket that sent the astronauts to the moon 50 years ago. He worked for the Douglas Aircraft Company, which built the third stage of the Saturn V rocket in ...

The nine-floor building – with its distinctive 1960s design ... Alabama and its rocket put Apollo 11, first man on the moon. Florida had the launch pad and countdown, ...

There has been a good deal of focus on the Moon lately. First, the LRO sent back high-res photos of the surface, which was followed by the 40th anniversary of Apollo 11 and the release of restored ...