Overview of the Apollo mission sequence—from Saturn V launch to lunar landing and splashdown. Launch (Saturn V): - Saturn V ...

Videodisc Imagery Collection, Videodisc 6A Frame Captures, Acc. NASM.XXXX.1000.4610, National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution. Material is subject to ...

Apollo 17 was the last Apollo mission to land men on the moon. It was launched by a Saturn V rocket Dec. 7, 1972, carrying Commander Eugene Cernan, command module pilot Ron Evans and lunar module ...

Though NASA expected their complicated machines would not always work right, the first deaths in the space program still came as a shock -- because the fatal mishap occurred on the ground. Gus Grissom ...

As the lunar module separated from the service module of Apollo 13, commander James A. Lovell Jr. got his first look at the damage. Lovell told NASA’s Mission Control, “There is one whole side of that ...