On this day 50 years ago at 2:13 p.m. EST, Commander James (Jim) Lovell, Command Module Pilot John Swigert and Lunar Module Pilot Fred Haise launched from Launch Pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center ...

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.

Fifty years ago, a catastrophic explosion aboard the Apollo 13 spaceship threatened to maroon three American astronauts in space. With exclusive interviews and rarely seen NASA footage, Fox News and ...

LAKE FOREST, Ill. – When a Saturn rocket lifted off from Kennedy Space Center half a century ago, it carried three astronauts and a lunar lander to take two of them to the moon's surface. On board ...

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HOUSTON - April 13th is the anniversary of the oxygen-tank explosion that almost turned the Apollo 13 mission into a disaster, with NASA nearly losing the mission’s three-man crew in outer space. What ...

Shortly after Apollo 11 landed on the moon and astronaut Neil Armstrong took his famous first steps on the dusty lunar surface, some comedian in our Army unit at Fort ...

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