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 ...

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 ...

Apollo 11 50th Live is an all-day lunar celebration and countdown to Neil Armstrong’s first steps on the Moon held at Space Center Houston on July 20. Discover an array of space-themed experiences ...

To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing, the Orlando Sentinel is offering “Countdown to Apollo 11: The First Moon Landing” – 30 days of stories leading up to 50th anniversary ...

Though July 20, 1969 is remembered as the famous day men first stepped foot on the moon, the Apollo 11 mission actually launched long before. The decision to put a man on the moon and return him to ...

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 ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — It took 400,000 people to put Apollo 11’s Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin on the moon a half-century ago. That massive workforce stretched across the U.S. and included ...

From left: Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, Gov. Greg Abbott, former Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey and House Speaker Dustin Burrows, R-Lubbock, speak about school vouchers during a press conference on March 25, 2025.