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.
On July 26, 1971, at 9:34 am EDT, Apollo 15 lifted off the Pad A of Launch Complex 39 at the Kennedy Space Center on the first true lunar exploration mission. Using an improved Lunar Module, the ninth ...
Just two years after the first men walked on the moon, some astronauts drove a buggy on it. Although astronauts David R. Scott and James B. Irwin described the Lunar Roving Vehicle more like a ...
(Tribune News Service) —The National Museum of the U.S. Air Force is marking the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 15 mission to the moon with one of that mission's defining moments: a replica of the ...
Standing with the Apollo 9 command module in San Diego: a rare reunion, in 2019, of team members (from left) Gerry Griffin, Jim McDivitt, David Scott, Rusty Schweickart and Gene Kranz. Scott and ...
William Worden-Penczak, the grandson of NASA command module pilot Al Worden, has partnered with a popular space collectibles company to restore the 1971 Corvette that was leased to his grandfather as ...
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