Apollo 11's flight path took the spacecraft into Earth orbit 11 minutes after launch. Just over two hours later, during its second orbit, the rocket's third stage fired again to boost Apollo ...
Read more at http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/We-Have-Liftoff.html Photographer David Burnett focused his camera on the many tourists who flocked to ...
The Apollo 11 mission was a huge moment in US and world ... A space race developed between the US and the then Soviet Union, after the 1957 launch of the first Soviet Sputnik satellite.