A collection of audio recordings from the BBC Sound Archive about the Apollo 11 mission, as reported in ... space doctor Kevin Fong takes us on a ride from launch to orbit and the cosmos beyond ...

Read more at http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/We-Have-Liftoff.html Photographer David Burnett focused his camera on the many tourists who flocked to ...

With a newly-discovered trove of never-before-seen 70mm footage and audio recordings, APOLLO 11: First Steps Edition joins Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins, the Mission Control team ...

That same day, NASA managers met to select a formal target launch date. That meeting resulted in 16 July 1969 being chosen as Apollo 11’s launch day – a target the mission would meet.

CAPE KENNEDY, Fla., July 14, 1969 (UPI) -Launch crews, undismayed by an apparent Soviet gamble to upstage them, turned on Apollo 11's vital generators today and rolled toward Wednesday's start of ...

Apollo 11's flight path took the spacecraft into Earth orbit 11 minutes after launch. Just over two hours later, during its second orbit, the rocket's third stage fired again to boost Apollo ...