The Apollo program saw a total of 11 spaceflights and the first humans walk on the moon. NASA started the program, which is also known as Project Apollo, in 1961 with the sole mission of getting ...

American spaceflight history: Apollo Project overcomes tragedy to land man on moon 1966-1972: The Apollo Program established US as space leader ...

NASA’s Apollo program made history from the launch of its very first manned spacecraft on Oct. 11, 1968. And now, almost 50 years later, “Apollo VII-XVII,” a new book from teNeues, relives ...

Farouk El-Baz is a space scientist who trained astronauts and led the lunar landing site selection process for NASA's Apollo program between 1967 and 1972. In this event, Mr. El-Baz talked about ...

Hawai’i has an extensive history with the Apollo Space Program, which started with astronauts visiting the Big Island in 1965. “So it all started back in the mid 1960’s.” Jansen said.

NASA The moon program got off the ground with the successful launch of Apollo 7 on Oct. 11, 1968, a shakedown cruise for the redesigned post-fire Apollo command module in low-Earth orbit.

But in 1969, everything was in place for the Apollo Program to make history, with the first lunar landing attempt - a mission which would test the skills of crew-members Armstrong, Aldrin and ...

In fact, Jim Lovell was only one bad cough away from becoming the first man ever to set foot on the Moon. He was the backup commander for Neil Armstrong on Apollo 11, so if Armstrong had caught a cold ...

Former NASA chief historian Roger Launius talked about the history of the Apollo program. He described how the Cold War influenced early space missions and the excitement over the moon landing in ...