We explore the dramatic story of NASA's Apollo Program, beginning with President Kennedy's ambitious deadline for a lunar landing after the Soviet Union took the lead in the 'Space Race'. We explore the dramatic story of NASA's Apollo Program, beginning with President Kennedy's ambitious deadline for a lunar landing by the end of the decade, in response to Soviet success with Sputnik and cosmonaut Yuri Gargarin. We look at how Werner von Braun, a former rocket scientist of the Third Reich, playe

From October 2018 through December 2022, NASA will look at the 50th anniversary of the Apollo Program that landed a dozen astronauts on the Moon. | NASA History

Today marks 50 years since the final launch of NASA’s Apollo spacecraft! We celebrate the countless men and women whose work took humanity to unimagined heights. #OTD in 1975, three U.S. astronauts launched into orbit for the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project, paving the way for future international partnerships in space. https://go.nasa.gov/408dIWv | NASA History