Look at a picture of the Apollo 11 launch and you'll probably notice the rocket's pointed tip and the fire coming from the five giant engines in the first stage of the 36-story-tall Saturn V rocket.

Fifty-five years ago today, humans landed on the Moon. On the mission were three American pilots, all military pilots who had served as combat or test pilots before heading to space. Apollo 11’s lunar ...

Astronaut Ken “T.K.” Mattingly has died. He circled the moon as command module pilot on Apollo 16 and later flew the space shuttle. But he’s probably best known for the mission he didn’t get to fly: ...

Liftoff of the Apollo 17 Saturn V Moon Rocket from Pad A, Launch Complex 39, Kennedy Space Center, Florida, at 12:33 a.m., December 17, 1972. Apollo 17, the final lunar landing mission, was the first ...

We all remember Neil Armstrong's famous words as the Apollo 11 astronaut took the first living, breathing human steps on the surface of the Moon. Small steps and giant leaps for man and mankind. But ...

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