It took 43 days and a custom cage to bring the 4.5-tonne test command module from Washington to Castle Hill in Sydney's north ...

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On this day, July 16, 1969, NASA's Apollo 11 mission lifted off aboard a mighty Saturn V rocket from Kennedy Space Center in ...

On July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong became the first human to set foot on the Earth’s moon. On July 16, 1969, Armstrong, Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin and Michael Collins were launched from Cape Kennedy atop a ...

On July 20, 1969, at 20:17 UTC, Commander Neil Armstrong and lunar module pilot Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin landed on the moon as ...

Humans first visited the Moon in 1969. The last time we went was 1972, over 50 years ago. Back then, astronauts in the Apollo program made their journeys in spacecraft that relied on remarkably basic ...

Former NASA astronaut Walter Cunningham, who flew on the first test of the Apollo command module in Earth orbit, has died at the age of 90. Cunningham's death on Tuesday (Jan. 3) was confirmed by his ...

On July 15, 1975, the first joint space mission between the United States and the Soviet Union blasted off into orbit. They ...

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.

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