Two special coins marking the anniversary of Apollo 11 made their way to space and back. Skip to main content. ... Watch Honda launch (and land) its 1st reusable rocket in this wild video ...

The 50th anniversary of the first moon landing is still three years away, but the opportunity for the United States Treasury to issue coins commemorating the Apollo 11 mission's half-centennial is ...

The 363-foot projection of the rocket will also be flashed on the monument Wednesday and Thursday from 9:30 p.m. to 11:30 p.m. It’s part of the Apollo 50 Festival, which includes performances ...

The Saturn V rocket is now iconic for carrying the Apollo 11 crew to the moon in 1969. The projection-mapping artwork will occupy 363 of the monument's 555 vertical feet.

WASHINGTON – Fifty years ago, men were launched to the moon on a Saturn V rocket. Only three of this type of rocket still exist, and none has ever been to D.C. Until now. A 363-foot Saturn V ...

The Apollo 11 site is a historical landmark, and it should be treated as such, says Michelle Hanlon, a co-founder of For All Moonkind, an organization of lawyers who specialize in space law.

The United States Mint has revealed the candidate designs for the "heads-side" of its planned coins for the 50th anniversary of the first moon landing in 2019. The 18 designs for the Apollo 11 ...

The Apollo 1 fire on Jan. 27, 1967 as the rocket sat on the launchpad at Kennedy Space Center, killed astronauts Virgil “Gus” Grissom, Edward White and Roger Chaffee and destroyed the space ...

It’s where Alabama is focusing its celebration of the golden anniversary of Apollo 11, and a lot of the celebration will take place at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center under one of the three ...

Apollo 11 climbs toward orbit after liftoff on July 16, 1969. In 2 1/2 minutes of powered flight, the S-IC booster lifts the vehicle to an altitude of about 39 miles, some 55 miles downrange.

At NASA, that means looking to the Apollo program for ideas on how to develop the next generation of rockets for future missions to the moon and beyond. Skip to content Coronavirus ...

The United States Mint has revealed the candidate designs for the "heads-side" of its planned coins for the 50th anniversary of the first moon landing in 2019. The 18 designs for the Apollo 11 50th ...