A Saturn V rocket launches from Pad 39A on the Apollo 8 mission to the Moon. NASA The first astronauts to launch from LC-39A were the Apollo 8 crew, Frank Borman, Jim Lovell, and Bill Anders ...

Apollo 8 astronauts Frank Borman, Jim Lovell, and Bill Anders put it all on the line to get America to the Moon ahead of the Soviets.

NASA’s Apollo 8 mission launched to the moon. Apollo 8 was the second crewed mission in NASA’s Apollo program. It was also ...

Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex is getting a new attraction which explores launch pads and wildlife on Merritt Island.

However, the first Saturn V launch didn't carry astronauts ... V rocket launched the first astronauts to the moon with the Apollo 8 mission. All of the Apollo missions that followed also launched ...

Fifty years on, the Apollo Moon programme is ... Standing at more than 100m (363ft), the Saturn V rocket burned some 20 tonnes of fuel a second at launch. Propellant accounted for 85% of its ...

On the day of launch, Apollo 11 will have a multi-hour launch window, allowing for a potential recycle of the Saturn V countdown to realign the launch time for later in the day and allow launch ...

The US was still riven with conflict and protest. The final Apollo mission was the first night launch of the powerful Saturn V rocket. As if mirroring the 10 years of the Apollo era in a few short ...

[Fran] has been researching the Saturn V Launch Vehicle Digital Computer – the computer that flew all the Apollo flights into orbit and onwards towards the moon – for a while now. Even though ...

NASA has marked the 55th anniversary of Apollo 12 - world's second manned mission to the Moon. Astronauts Charles "Pete" Conrad Jr., Alan Bean and Richard Gordon Jr. blasted off to the Moon on ...