Fifty years ago today, the massive Saturn V rocket for the Apollo 11 mission that would fulfill President Kennedy’s goal of “landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to Earth ...

The launch pad is historic, and saw some of NASA's most iconic missions, including Apollo 11, which landed the first astronauts on the moon in 1969. NASA's space shuttle program also used the pad ...

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.

An outdoor experience which focuses on the famed Launch Pad ... back, Apollo 10, which flew around the moon, launched from ...

The second attempt, on July 3, 1969—with NASA’s Apollo 11 already sitting on the launch pad—was intended to send a Zond spacecraft into lunar orbit. No cosmonauts were on board, but it was ...