The countdown for the Apollo 11 launch began 50 years ago today at the Kennedy Space Center, six days before the astronauts and their Saturn V rocket would blast off for the moon. “This is the big one ...

Pete Conrad had the time of his life as commander of Apollo 12. You could actually hear it in his voice. Neil Armstrong, the commander of Apollo 11, had to speak for the ages four months earlier when ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Jack King, a NASA public affairs official who became the voice of the Apollo moon shots, died Thursday. He was 84. King counted down the historic launch of Apollo 11 on July 16, ...

pt. I. Introduction. How was that even remotely possible? ; Why was a book about Kennedy Space Center ; How this book was is organized ; 24,000 perspectives -- pt. II ...

Apollo 11 launched from Kennedy Space Center 50 years ago this morning, the start of an eight-day, 953,000-mile journey which would take the first humans to the surface of the moon and return them ...

Before Apollo, there was Gemini, and before Gemini, there was the Mercury program. This episode examines Mercury, the first U.S. program to put a man in space. It looks at the people, such as ...