Though Neil Armstrong called it a “small step for man,” the Apollo 11 Moon landing was certainly no small expense. It took 400,000 people to put two men -- Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin -- on the ...

To get astronauts to the Moon, Nasa had to build the most powerful rocket ever flown successfully. The Saturn V was just the rocket for the job. 111: Height of Saturn V rocket in metres On 16 July ...

The crew of Apollo 11 came ... Armstrong was the consummate test pilot who flew the fabled X-15 rocket plane to the edge ... "I was on my way to having a good old American nervous breakdown." ...

We explore the dramatic story of NASA's Apollo Program, beginning with President Kennedy's ambitious deadline for a lunar ...

While it might not be as exciting as the Saturn V rocket itself, the Apollo Guidance Computer (AGC) was one of the most important developments of the entire Apollo program. While comically underwhe… ...

The rocket launch in the background of this image has little to do with NASA or the Apollo 8 mission. This image actually shows Japan's H-2A rocket taking off from the Tanegashima Space Center in ...

Before NASA decided to launch Apollo on the Saturn V rocket, the agency considered a larger rocket called Nova. The necessary launch vehicle for the heavier Direct Ascent mission profile, this ...

The Saturn V was used for the entire Apollo program, culminating in the last mission to the Moon, Apollo 17 in 1972. The big rocket was also used to launch Nasa’s first space station, Skylab, in ...

A veteran diver who was almost a passenger on the missing Titan submersible says equipment used to retrieve Apollo 11 rocket engines in 2013 should be used in rescue operations.