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

The awe-inspiring launch of Apollo 11, one of humanity's greatest achievements that propelled Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins towards the Moon on July 16, 1969. As the clock nears zero, the tremendous power of the Saturn V roars to life, engulfing the launchpad in a brilliant display of fire and smoke. Neil Armstrong secretly took an amazing artifact to the moon. The astronaut hid himself a piece of wood that belonged to an aircraft propeller built by the Wright brothers . #nasa