Fifty-five years ago Saturday, humanity made its first visit to the lunar surface with Apollo 11. Lifting off atop the gigantic Saturn V rocket on July 16, 1969, the Apollo 11 mission forever ...

Fifty years ago today, the massive Saturn V rocket for the Apollo 11 mission that would fulfill President Kennedy’s goal of “landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to Earth ...

The mission to the moon was believed to be “impossible” at the time, with much doubt cast over the rocket, equipment, and astronauts’ abilities. Since the Apollo 11 astronauts stepped onto ...

Cape Canaveral has been the site of numerous rocket launches and space faring missions, and that's all due to its strategic ...

One of the largest machines ever built, the 363-foot rocket was as tall as a 36-story building. Personnel within the Launch Control Center watch the Apollo 11 liftoff. The LCC is located 3.5 ...

A photo of Apollo 11. Commander Charles Conrad of Apollo 12 ... the Apollo program remains the biggest and most powerful rocket ever launched with the record for the largest payload capacity ...

Buzz Aldrin saw it knocked over by the rocket blast as he and Neil Armstrong ... in time for the 40th anniversary of Apollo 11. An intense contest is under way among several groups vying for ...

About two weeks before the Apollo 11 mission was launched to the moon ... On July 3, the secret moon rocket known as the N-1 had exploded in a fireball at the remote launch site at Baikonur ...