To meet the challenge of putting a man on the Moon, the Apollo space program needed a rocket more powerful and advanced than any that had ever been seen before. The final result was the Saturn V ...

Although it’s been 52 years since the Apollo 11 mission first took man to the moon and 30 years since Tom Hanks famously told ...

I knew I was alone,” he observed later, “in a way that no earthling has ever been before.” That quote is immortalized on a ...

Now open, The Gantry at LC-39 offers more than a close up view of the launch pads. See a preview of this new KSC VC bus tour ...

(CNN) — Here’s a look at the first moon landing on July 20, 1969. The moon landing was watched by an estimated 600 million people around the world. July 20, 1969 - [4:17 p.m. EDT] Apollo 11 becomes ...

Compensation deal for victims of Nazi forced-labor; Apollo-Soyuz mission; Julius Rosenberg arrested; anti-French revolt in ...

An Apollo capsule sits atop the Saturn V booster at NASA's Johnson Space Center. The escape tower is visible and the outside of the capsule is weathered.

After its voyage past Mars, Mariner 4 maintained intermittent communication with JPL and returned data about the interplanetary environment for two more years. But by the end of 1967, the spacecraft ...

Jennings has passed it many times over the last seven years. "I've seen people leave Apollo patches, Saturn 5 rocket models, U. S. flags, and many times flowers," he said.

Right out of college and as a U.S. Air Force officer on special assignment, my job in the NASA Houston Landing and Recovery Division was to train Apollo astronauts in ...

“Apollo to Artemis” presentations from a Visitor Complex expert An Apollo 11 short film Photo ops with the lunar rover at Apollo/Saturn V Center ...