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.

After a fairly eventful mission to the Moon's surface, Charles Duke left several items on the Moon, and a message to whoever ...

Leading up to the historic 1969 Apollo 11 mission, ABC News built a mock Apollo command module to give viewers an inside look at how astronauts would travel to the lunar surface. See more of the ...

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 ...

While Alan Shepard played one of the worst rounds of Moon golf on record, an experiment was circling the Moon 34 times on ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. NASA crew systems chief Ed Smylie shows the work that he and his team did in April 1970 to jury ...

The Apollo 16 Command Module with John W. Young, Thomas K. Mattingly II, and Charles M. Duke Jr. splashing down in the central Pacific Ocean to successfully conclude their lunar landing mission. The ...

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