The US was still riven with conflict and protest. The final Apollo mission was the first night launch of the powerful Saturn V rocket. As if mirroring the 10 years of the Apollo era in a few short ...

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 ...

Apollo 11's flight path took the spacecraft into Earth orbit 11 minutes after launch. Just over two hours later, during its second orbit, the rocket's third stage fired again to boost Apollo ...

The final Apollo mission was one of superlatives. The longest of all, it featured the only night launch of the program, the first professional scientist to walk on the moon (geologist Harrison ...

where the rust-streaked launch pedestal looms like a memorial to one of NASA's most haunting tragedies. On Jan. 27, 1967, pioneering Apollo 1 astronauts Virgil "Gus" Grissom, Edward White and ...

But what Falcon Heavy's successful launch may mean for the future of spaceflight is anything but a joke. "It ranks up there with the first Apollo mission. This is a pretty amazing thing," John ...

On November 14, 1969, the Apollo 12 mission launched to the moon. This was the second moon landing of the Apollo program. The two astronauts on board were Pete Conrad and Alan Bean. Richard Gordon ...