One of the most fun projects I ever carried out in school was building my own rocket and launching it on school grounds with the rest of my class. While reliving the good ol' days may be difficult, ...

Denny Gioia, professor in Penn State's Smeal College of Business, and former Apollo engineer, stands in front of a wall in his office devoted to Apollo memorabilia. Fifty years ago,on July 16, 1969, a ...

Fifty years after humans first stepped foot on the moon during the Apollo 11 mission, NASA is celebrating the historic launch of the Saturn V rocket. The mission had one objective: to perform a crewed ...

It's April 27, 1969, and we are just three weeks away from the May launch of Apollo 10 -- the last dress rehearsal before Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin attempt to land on the moon this summer. So, it ...

The five F-1 engines of the huge Saturn V space vehicle's first stage leave a gigantic trail of flame in the sky above the Kennedy Space Center after liftoff. When the Saturn V rocket propelled man to ...

HOUSTON – Dwarfed by the Saturn V rocket’s immense size, 10-year-old Adam Brauscum stood in awe as his father described how such massive machinery carried man to the moon. “It’s so big,” Adam said ...

The date was July 16, 1969. The Saturn V rocket that sent Neil Armstrong, Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin and Michael Collins to the moon took off from the Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Complex in Florida. Right ...

LEGO Ideas NASA Apollo Saturn V Building set ($119.99) In the early morning hours of July 16, 1969, technicians at the Kennedy Space Center loaded upward of 750,000 gallons of fuel into the 363-foot ...

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. – Fifty years ago this July 16, Saturn V launched Apollo 11 to the moon. More than one million people gathered on the Space Coast to watch Buzz Aldrin, Neil Armstrong and ...

On this day in 1969, Apollo 12—the second crewed mission to land on the Moon—launched from Cape Kennedy on a mission that almost ended before it truly began.

HOUSTON — Dwarfed by the Saturn V rocket's immense size, 10-year-old Adam Brauscum stood in awe as his father described how such massive machinery carried man to the moon. "It's so big," Adam said ...