Lunar coordinates and messages on the walls inside the Apollo 11, the spacecraft that took the first manned mission to the moon in 1969, can now be seen closely. Officials at the Smithsonian’s ...

Fifty years ago today, the massive Saturn V rocket for ... process of getting Apollo 11 to the pad has taken years to fulfill and followed months of stacking operations inside VAB High Bay 1.

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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 ...

Introducing the Apollo 11 Crew: Neil Armstrong (commander ... there’s frost on the rocket from the super-chilled liquid oxygen inside. From their access gantry, the men can see over a million ...

Consider that 50 years ago this month a 36-story-tall Saturn V rocket weighing as much as 400 ... But the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11 reminds us that this laughably ambitious goal has in fact ...

"Thanks for all your effort," wrote the first moonwalker. Neil Armstrong was appreciative, but as explained in his ...

The plan was that they would fly a 15-story Saturn IB rocket into Earth orbit in late February for a two-week shakedown of Apollo’s myriad systems. But Grissom harbored scant faith in his ship ...