More than 3,500 of those stem from the historic Apollo Moon landing effort, with 400 objects related specifically to the first successful lunar landing mission, Apollo 11. On July 20, 1969, astronauts ...

No one has been back to the moon for over 50 years, but the reasons why are multifaceted and not obvious at first glance.

Introducing the Apollo 11 Crew: Neil Armstrong (commander), Buzz ... At 111m tall, it’s 18m taller than the Statue of Liberty. It works in three stages, each detaching after its job is done.

The process of getting Apollo 11 to the pad has taken years to fulfill ... and Liquid Hydrogen into the three stages of the Saturn V – forcing the propellant against the pull of gravity up ...

The Apollo 11 astronauts used advanced technology to ... each providing thrust for one of the rocket's three stages. As each stage burned through its fuel, it was dropped and left to break up ...

The first manned mission to the moon, Apollo 11, launched on July 16, 1969. The crew of NASA's Apollo 11 mission, from left, Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin, Michael Collins, and Neil Armstrong, pose with a ...

T minus 25 seconds…20 seconds and counting…T minus 15 seconds…guidance is internal…12, 11, 10, 9…ignition sequence starts…6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 0…all engines running…lift-off, we have ...

The spacesuit worn by the first Briton in space, the Soyuz that brought the first UK astronaut back to Earth and the only ...

Gemini 8 was launched on March 16, 1966, and Armstrong performed the first successful docking of two vehicles in space. As spacecraft commander for Apollo 11, the first crewed lunar landing mission, ...