July 16, 1969, marked a historic day for mankind with the launch of the Apollo 11 mission from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, sending the first humans to the moon. Even today, NASA and companies ...

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Personnel within the Launch Control Center watch the Apollo 11 liftoff. The LCC is located 3.5 miles from the launch pad.

That same day, NASA managers met to select a formal target launch date. That meeting resulted in 16 July 1969 being chosen as Apollo 11’s launch day – a target the mission would meet.

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 ...

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 ...

As the Apollo 11 mission began its descent toward the lunar surface, astronaut Neil Armstrong’s heart pumped at a mere 75 ...

Aldrin Jr. walking on the surface of the moon near the leg of the Lunar Module (ML) \u0022Eagle\u0022 and astronaut Neil Armstrong, during the Apollo 11 extravehicular activity (EVA). NASA no ...

The Apollo Program began not with glory—but with fire. This is the story of how NASA’s most ambitious project nearly ended ...

That July, the Apollo 11 mission would attempt just that. I was 22, a year out of Colorado College and working as a photographer at Time magazine's Miami bureau. In the days before the launch ...

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 ...

But Von Braun knows that Apollo 11 could change everything. Will his prayers be answered? Ahead of the launch, locals and tourists are cramming Cape Canaveral’s coastline. They’re waiting for ...