Some pieces were recovered, while other parts of Apollo 11's third stage orbited the Sun for decades before returning to Earth's gravitational pull. All told, the Saturn V rocket boasted 11 J-2 ...

By fully fueling the Apollo 11 rocket, NASA’s launch team at KSC ... and Liquid Hydrogen into the three stages of the Saturn V – forcing the propellant against the pull of gravity up nearly ...

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 running…lift-off, we have ...

Lifting off atop the gigantic Saturn V rocket on July 16, 1969, the Apollo 11 mission forever changed ... the massive Saturn V was constructed in stages, stacked up vertically for flight.

A giant Saturn V rocket will fire Apollo 11 and her crew into space ... It works in three stages, each detaching after its job is done. The rocket generates 34.5 million newtons of thrust at ...

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 ...

With Apollo 11’s successful landing on the Moon in ... with the Orbital Workshop taking the place of the S-IVB third stage. The rocket’s instrument unit (IU) was incorporated at the forward ...