lift-off on Apollo 11… T minus 25 seconds…20 seconds and counting…T minus 15 seconds…guidance is internal…12, 11, 10, 9…ignition sequence starts…6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 0…all engines ...

Neil Armstrong thought he had a 50–50 shot at pulling it off. "There are so many unknowns ... been back to the lunar surface since the last Apollo astronaut left it in 1972, and plans to ...

The mission was commanded by Apollo veteran Thomas "TK" Mattingly ... and public coverage of the expedition soon ceased after the successful lift-off. However, despite the mission's classified ...

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 ...