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 ...

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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 ...

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 engineers, scientists, mechanics, ...