Rocket engines that may have powered the flight of the first man to walk on the moon have been recovered off the coast of Florida from a depth of nearly three miles beneath the ocean's surface. Well, ...

For four decades, the engines that powered Apollo 11 to the moon have lain at the bottom of the Atlantic. But they'll soon rise again. On July 16, 1969, the world watched as the Apollo 11 spacecraft ...

The engines, still attached to the rocket's first stage, had been purposely dropped into the Atlantic Ocean after they had flown 38 miles (61 kilometers) high and burnt through their fuel supply. NASA ...

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On Jan. 22, 1968, NASA launched Apollo 5, marking the first time the Apollo Lunar Module flew in space and a critical step toward landing astronauts on the Moon.