Personnel within the Launch Control Center watch the Apollo 11 liftoff. The LCC is located 3.5 miles from the launch pad. The Saturn V rocket climbs into orbit.

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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 ...

But there were thousands of women supporting the mission. Instrumentation controller JoAnn Morgan was the only woman in Apollo 11 launch control at Cape Canaveral. As an engineer, she was ...

CAPE KENNEDY, Fla., July 14, 1969 (UPI) -Launch crews, undismayed by an apparent Soviet gamble to upstage them, turned on Apollo 11's vital generators today and rolled toward Wednesday's start of ...

Credit: Honest Hands Ring Co. For better or for worse, a small part of the Apollo 11 spacecraft will now be Jon Mesick's to have and to hold for all the days of his life. The strip of golden ...

A piece of moon rock gifted to Ireland following NASA's historic Apollo 11 mission in 1969 was tragically destroyed in a fire, newly uncovered documents from Ireland's National Archives reveal.

But the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11 reminds us that this laughably ambitious goal has in fact already been proved doable--on a short deadline, at a time when computers were the size of rooms ...

This week marks the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission, which first landed American astronauts on the moon's surface. Of the intrepid crew, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin have tended to ...

The one-of-a-kind wedding band was crafted by the artisans at the Honest Hands Ring Co. of Colorado. For better or for worse, a small part of the Apollo 11 spacecraft will now be Jon Mesick's to ...