Live coverage: Kennedy Space Center to reopen Friday

A Falcon 9 rocket is moved into the position for a static test firing of its nine Merlin 1D engines. This time lapse video runs at 20 times normal speed.

The four RS-25 engines at the bottom of NASA’s first Space Launch System core stage shut down about a minute into a ground test-firing Saturday that was supposed to last more than eight minutes.

The launch of Apollo 11 on its historic mission to the Moon as it was broadcast live by NASA on July 16, 1969. The legendary commentator Jack King, who passed away in 2015, counts down to liftoff.