NASA astronauts Buzz Aldrin, Neil Armstrong and Michael Collins blasted off on their famous mission to land and walk on the ...

Apollo 11 rollout: At 12:30 EDT on the dot, the massive crawler transporter’s gears began turning, inching the 363 ft tall Saturn V rocket from High Bay 1 in the Vehicle Assembly Building ...

BREVARD COUNTY • KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLORIDA – On July 16, 1969 at 9:32 a.m. Eastern Time, the Apollo 11 crew of Armstrong, Aldrin, and Collins launched toward the Moon. The astronauts were not the ...

Apollo 11, the first US lunar landing mission, is launched at 9:32 a.m. Easter Daylight Time. The Cosmosphere in Hutchinson, Kansas, houses artifacts from the Apollo program.

A detailed description of what the launch and landing of Apollo 11 were like for many of the 400,000 insiders who worked on the most famous space exploration mission in history.

However, when Apollo 11 neared its destination, astronauts performed a braking manoeuvre known as "lunar orbit insertion" to slow the spacecraft and cause it to go into orbit around the Moon.

The Apollo 11 lunar landing would have been impossible had it not been for software engineering. ... "The quicker you roll out software, the less it is tested before deployment, ...

Steve Bales isn’t a known name like Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin. But his bold ‘go’ decision during Apollo 11’s moon ...

No – Aldrin is the only living crew member from Apollo 11. He turned 94 in January. Armstrong died on Aug. 25, 2012 at age 82, due to complications from heart bypass surgery .

After Apollo 11, Collins worked for the State Department, but remained in the U.S. Air Force Reserves. He retired in 1976 with the rank of major general. Collins died in 2021 at the age of 90.