The Apollo 11 astronauts used advanced technology to land on the Moon. The Saturn V rocket was the largest rocket ever at that point — although SpaceX's Starship topped it when it took flight in ...

Fifty-five years ago Saturday, humanity made its first visit to the lunar surface with Apollo 11. Lifting off atop the gigantic Saturn V rocket on July 16, 1969, the Apollo 11 mission forever ...

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.

Image caption, Introducing the Apollo 11 Crew: Neil Armstrong (commander), Buzz Aldrin (lunar module pilot), and Michael Collins (command module pilot). A giant Saturn V rocket will fire Apollo 11 ...

[Fran] has been researching the Saturn V Launch Vehicle Digital Computer – the computer that flew all the Apollo flights into orbit and onwards towards the moon – for a while now. Even though ...

With Apollo 11’s successful landing on the Moon in July ... was converted from an S-IVB stage that had been intended for a Saturn IB rocket. A Saturn V rocket left over from the cancellation ...

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 ...

As Marc explains, Apollo actually had four main computers. There was the Launch Vehicle Digital Computer (LVDC) which was charged with steering the Saturn V from launch, along with the Flight ...