As of 2024, 13 Saturn V missions have launched from Kennedy Space Center in Florida, including the Apollo 11 mission launched ... The central engine was fixed, but the four surrounding it could ...

A selection of Apollo 11 objects and their current descriptions are viewable in this grouping. Curators in the Museum's Space History Department are constantly acquiring information about objects in ...

An 18-karat gold version of the first watch worn on the moon has set a record for the most paid for an astronaut's timepiece.

Apollo 11 took-off from the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida to begin its ... Approximately 2.5 hours later the engine of the 3rd stage booster was fired to take the rocket out of Earth orbit ...

Japan’s Kaguya spacecraft, which arrived in lunar orbit in October, Dave Scott and Jim Irwin’s rocket engine as they touched ... the 40th anniversary of Apollo 11. An intense contest is ...

On July 20, 1969, the world watched on as the US made space history with its ambitious Apollo 11 mission. Neil Armstrong and ...

Abernathy, civil rights leader, Tuesday that America's space program showed that unity could fight hunger problems as well as put a man on the moon. Apollo 11 blasts off for historic moon voyage ...

"It's an audio thriller about Buzz Aldrin, one of the true pioneers of space." On July 20, 1969, Aldrin and Apollo 11 commander Neil Armstrong achieved humanity's first landing on another ...

The National Air and Space Museum holds approximately ... More than 3,500 of those stem from the historic Apollo Moon landing effort, with 400 objects related specifically to the first successful ...

If you’d like to see what goes into making a 1/3-scale Apollo 11 Lunar Module ... Bright red lighting for the engine combined with a couple of slow strobe lights really makes it come alive ...