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 engines, all of which held ...

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The process of getting Apollo 11 to the pad has taken years ... the countdown except ignition of the five F-1 engines at the base of the Saturn V rocket and lift off of the vehicle.

Seattle's Museum of Flight brings its collection of space artifacts up to the present day with a Blue Origin BE-3U rocket ...

Decades after the end of the space race, an American rocket took off from Cape Canaveral ... just a few weeks before the Apollo 11 mission. The N-1 took off and promptly crashed down on the ...

Apollo 11 took-off from the Kennedy Space ... Approximately 2.5 hours later the engine of the 3rd stage booster was fired to take the rocket out of Earth orbit and onwards to the Moon.

July 15 (UPI) --NASA is recognizing the 55th anniversary of the Apollo moon landing ... Launch System core stage. "The rocket stage with its four RS-25 engines will provide more than two million ...

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