It was an image that defined an era of space exploration. In 1969, an estimated 600 million people watched from their living ...
Just two weeks before Apollo 11 landed on the Moon, the Soviet Union suffered a catastrophic rocket failure that shook Baikonur and quietly ended its lunar ambitions. This video unpacks the N1 ...
On July 24, 1969, Apollo 11 met President Kennedy’s 1961 challenge of “landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the earth” before the end of the decade. The Smithsonian celebrates and ...
A start-up company from California is now taking bookings for a moon hotel, but interested customers will have to be very ...
Buzz Aldrin, the second man and only one of 12 to ever walk on the moon, turns 96 today. He’s just one of four living ...