From the day the Soviets put an astronaut into space in April 1961, the race was on with America to get a man on the moon.

The Pentagon has released hundreds of UFO-related files, including Apollo mission transcripts, military videos and eyewitness reports of unexplained aerial phenomena. While the disclosures have raised ...

For the first time in more than 50 years, humans are once again venturing to the Moon. Nasa’s Artemis program had sent four astronauts aboard the Orion spacecraft on a mission lasting nearly 10 ...

In this video, we focus on the Saturn V rocket, which launched the Apollo spacecraft into orbit. Notably, there were 13 successful launches of the Saturn V. The journey to the moon is discussed, ...

Rediscover the famous words exchanged between astronauts Buzz Aldrin, Neil Armstrong, and Michael Collins during the first moon landing and see the historic photos they took. At dawn of a two-week ...

Apollo 13 was supposed to be NASA's third crewed mission to the surface of the moon, but nearly 56 hours into the flight, command module pilot John "Jack" Swigert radioed a troubling message to ...

This video chronicles the journey to the moon, focusing on the Apollo 11 mission, which remains the only human expedition beyond low Earth orbit. It details the separation of the Lunar Module (LM) ...

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ABOVE VIDEO: The launch of Apollo 13 – This is the CBS coverage of the event. (NASA) – On April 11, 1970, the powerful Saturn V rocket carrying the Apollo 13 mission launched from Kennedy Space Center ...

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The Apollo 11 astronauts used advanced technology to land on the Moon. The Saturn V rocket was the largest rocket ever at that point — although SpaceX's Starship topped it when it took flight in 2024.