The photo of the Apollo 11 launch captured by George Benjamin in 1969. (Juris Benjamin/Submitted) As the world looks back at the Apollo 11 mission on the 50th anniversary of the moon landing, a St.

Apollo 11 astronaut Michael Collins returned Tuesday to the exact spot from which he flew to the moon 50 years ago with Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin. Mr. Collins had the spotlight to himself this ...

Apollo 11 launched on July 16, 1969, on its way to the moon. In the video below, Mark Gray shows slow-motion footage of the launch (a Saturn V rocket) and explains in glorious detail what's going on ...

Stan Shadick was 14 years old and living in Saskatoon when the Apollo 11 moon landing rocked the world in the summer of ’69. For a youngster already interested in science and space, the unprecedented ...

Jack King, a NASA public affairs official who became the voice of the Apollo moon shots, died Thursday. He was 84. King counted down the historic launch of Apollo 11 on July 16, 1969. He also did the ...

ORLANDO, FLA.—Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins were the most important people to NASA on launch day in 1969, but they did have competition. There were thousands of ...

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It was one giant leap for mankind, and for Robert Fleming, one experience he will never, ever forget. Fifty years ago Tuesday, Fleming was at Kennedy Space Centre in Florida to watch Apollo 11 blast ...

A moonstruck nation celebrated the 50th anniversary of humanity’s first footsteps on another world Saturday, gathering in record heat at races and other festivities to commemorate Apollo 11’s “giant ...