The launch control center at NASA’s ... oversaw the launches of the early Apollo lunar missions, and later launch directors launched NASA’s shuttles into space. “Today, we recognize the ...

Gene Kranz remembers taking tours through the historic Mission Operations Control Room at Johnson Space Center in Houston. Kranz was the flight director during the Gemini and Apollo missions (he ...

Barber has been on a commemorative space mission the last few years spearheading an effort to create statues for Apollo 11 at Kennedy Space Center and Apollo 13 in Houston. Now he’s looking to ...

The Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex is getting its 15 ... stylish comedy-drama set against the high-stakes backdrop of NASA’s historic Apollo 11 moon landing. Brought in to fix NASA ...

From this legendary room, America conducted some of its most amazing space missions. The Apollo Mission Control Center has undergone a massive restoration to bring the room back to life as it ...

There were tears and cheers as Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong took their steps. Fifty years ago this week, the Apollo 11 astronauts -- Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins -- suited up ...

Apollo 17, left, blasting off from Launchpad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Dec ... “Good morning to you” down to Earth. Mission Control responded with a blast of “Also ...

(Credit: NASA) S69-32613 (April 1969) — The prime crew of the Apollo 10 lunar orbit mission sits for a photograph while at the Kennedy Space Center for preflight training. Left to right are ...

A mission to send the first U.S. lander to the moon in five decades has launched successfully from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida ... to the moon since the Apollo 17 mission in 1972.

The massive Space Launch System rocket, with the Orion spacecraft atop, is scheduled to be launched Wednesday from Kennedy Space Center in Florida, named for Apollo's twin sister in Greek mythology.