T minus 25 seconds…20 seconds and counting…T minus 15 seconds…guidance is internal…12, 11, 10, 9…ignition sequence starts…6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 0…all engines running…lift-off, we have ...

Apollo 11 took-off from the Kennedy Space Centre in ... Twelve minutes after take-off the rocket entered orbit around the Earth. Approximately 2.5 hours later the engine of the 3rd stage booster ...

Purdue University graduate and Apollo 11 flight commander Neil Armstrong became the first person to step foot on the moon on July 20, 1969. It was a truly giant leap for mankind, and a seminal moment ...

Photographs of the first moon landing sites on 'X' bring conspiracy theories to the surface in a series of denial comments ...

More than 3,500 of those stem from the historic Apollo Moon landing effort, with 400 objects related specifically to the first successful lunar landing mission, Apollo 11. On July 20, 1969, astronauts ...

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 ...

The mesmerising television coverage of the Apollo 11 Moon landing 50 years ago brought ... "In those early days, we had to cover the space program from off base [and] the air force would give ...

The successful Apollo 11 mission delivered two American astronauts – Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin – to the lunar surface on July 20, 1969 (while Michael Collins famously remained in orbit).