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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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

They are the names written in history books: Armstrong, Aldrin, Lovell, Chaffee, Bean, Cernan, Anders, Griffin, Carr. Their stories of NASA’s Apollo program in the 1960s and ’70s are the stuff ...

In our film, we went from Sputnik to the first inklings of the space shuttle -- so you get the history of the entire space program. Certainly the great crowning victory is Apollo 11.

The Apollo-Soyuz Test Project brought Soviet cosmonauts and NASA astronauts together in the first international human spaceflight. By Becky Ferreira He and his team of NASA engineers jumped into ...