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CAPE KENNEDY, Fla. (WHNT) — 56 years ago today, the Apollo 10 “dress rehearsal” mission launched into space to set up the Apollo 11 moon landing mission a month later. Apollo 10 launched ...
Apollo 11's Saturn V rocket needed a lot of power to launch into orbit and reach the Moon. Here's what engines the spacecraft used to accomplish its mission.
For Apollo 11, the command module, named Columbia, served as the living quarters for the three-person crew and was manufactured by North American Rockwell. The Columbia measured only 3.9 meters in ...
On July 21, 1969, Apollo 11’s Eagle lunar ascent stage lifted off from the surface of the Moon to rendezvous with the command module Columbia in orbit. After docking, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin ...
In the two-man cabin of the Apollo 11 Lunar Module, slowly riding down its vertical rocket jet, blue signal lights flash on. Probes dangling 60 inches below the disk-shaped footpads have touched ...
Apollo 11’s command module pilot Michael Collins is still alive at 89 as is two of three members of the ill-fated Apollo 13 mission: 91-year-old Commander Jim Lovell and 86-year-old would-have ...
SAN FRANCISCO — When NASA's Apollo 12 rocket launched from Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Nov. 14, 1969, the sight was electrifying — and not in a good way. Moments after liftoff, at 36.5 ...
Apollo 11: Journey to the Moon is an interactive augmented reality story of the hardware and technology used by NASA for the Apollo 11 mission.
The U.S. Space & Rocket Center celebrated the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 launch July 16 by launching close to 5,000 rockets in an attempt to break the Guinness Book of World Records’ previous ...
For the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 launch, on successive days, a 363-foot image of their Saturn V rocket was projected onto the 555 foot Washington Monument, folllowed by a 17-minute light show ...