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 ...

Though July 20, 1969 is remembered as the famous day men first stepped foot on the moon, the Apollo 11 mission actually launched long before. The decision to put a man on the moon and return him to ...

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, ...