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On March 24, 1975, the last in a long line of super successful Saturn rockets rolled out from the vehicle assembly building ...

The spacesuit worn by the first Briton in space, the Soyuz that brought the first UK astronaut back to Earth and the only ...

A giant Saturn V rocket will fire Apollo 11 and her crew into space. With so much power underneath them, it’s like riding to work on a nuclear bomb. Saturn V weighs over 2.8 million kg fully ...

Fifty years ago today, the massive Saturn ... Space Center, Florida. That same day, NASA managers met to select a formal target launch date. That meeting resulted in 16 July 1969 being chosen as ...

A visit to Kennedy Space Center was a highlight of a month-long trip to the US, and to meet Hernández in person was a sweet ...

Saturn V SA-513, the rocket tasked with deploying ... missions beyond the lifespan of the fuel cells on visiting Apollo spacecraft, while the loss of thermal protection from the lost ...

a typically beautiful Saturn V launch. 16 July 1969. Apollo 11 took-off from the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida to begin its epic journey of approximately 385,000 kms to the Moon. The crew was ...

The first manned mission to the moon, Apollo 11 ... rocket for launch at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, on July 16, 1969. The Saturn V rocket launches from Pad A, Launch ...