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 ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The flight plans had been filed, the logistics confirmed and the countdown was on to celebrate ...

Counting down to the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing, the Orlando Sentinel produced a 30-day series of articles commemorating the historic mission and our local connection to it. All ...

NASA's Saturn V rocket successfully lifted off and carried its three astronauts on their historic Apollo 11 mission from launch pad 39A today at NASA’s Kennedy Space Centre in Florida at 09:32 local ...