Editor’s note: This article about Cape Canaveral, The Kennedy Space Center, and the space program is part of WRAL TechWire’s weeklong contribution to the Triangle’s “Lift Off NC: Apollo + Beyond” ...

In this historical photo from the U.S. space agency, attached to the Saturn IV-B stage on Oct. 11, 1968, the Lunar Module Adapter's four panels are retracted to the fully open position. This is where ...

To meet the challenge of putting a man on the Moon, the Apollo space program needed a rocket more powerful and advanced than any that had ever been seen before. The final result was the Saturn V, the ...

For more than 20 years, Lunar Module 9 has been in a state of constant flight. Now, it has finally come down for a landing — and for a closer view by the public. The Kennedy Space Center Visitor ...

An Apollo capsule and its launch escape rocket have been moved into the Davidson Saturn V Center being built at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center museum. Birmingham architect Jim Griffo watched the steel ...

The 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landings has been celebrated with a projection of the mighty Saturn V rocket onto the Washington monument. Images of the 363-foot-high (111-metre) rocket ...

In 1969, NASA made history when it sent Michael Collins, Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong to the Moon, with the latter two becoming the first people to step foot on the lunar surface. However, one man ...