Read more at http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/We-Have-Liftoff.html Photographer David Burnett focused his camera on the many tourists who flocked to ...

From the lunar landing to the launch of the Hubble Space Telescope, here are some bold space missions in history.

The Apollo 11 astronauts used advanced technology to ... As of 2024, the Saturn V remains the only launch vehicle to carry people outside of Low Earth Orbit (LEO), and it carried a hefty payload.

CAPE KENNEDY, Fla., July 14, 1969 (UPI) -Launch crews, undismayed by an apparent Soviet gamble to upstage them, turned on Apollo 11's vital generators today and rolled toward Wednesday's start of ...

Along with re-examining the historic Apollo 11 mission on Monday, NASA's Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans will host the rollout of the Artemis II Space Launch System core stage.

The Oscar-winning actor, who is a big fan of all things space, lent his voice to the NASA film exploring the fascinating ...

lift-off on Apollo 11… Tower cleared… She's lifting beautifully into the sky, a typically beautiful Saturn V launch. 16 July 1969. Apollo 11 took-off from the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida ...

But the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11 reminds us that this laughably ambitious goal has in fact already been proved doable--on a short deadline, at a time when computers were the size of rooms ...