This is a vintage oversize photograph from July 1969 of Earth taken by the Apollo 11 crew during the Apollo 11 trans-lunar coast. NASA (The National Aeronautics and Space Administration) is an ...

A photo of Apollo 11. Commander Charles Conrad of Apollo 12 became the third person to walk on the moon. With his opportunity ... payload capacity to reach low orbit (311,152 pounds), and is ...

How did it differ from the earth? What were the mascons, those mysterious subsurface objects, that perturbed the orbits of lunar satellites? Now, as NASA celebrates Apollo 11 with a series of events ...