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Steve Bales isn’t a known name like Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin. But his bold ‘go’ decision during Apollo 11’s moon ...
The Apollo 11 mission marks one of humanity's most incredible achievements—landing on the Moon. But have you ever wondered ...
The curious minds at Aperture revisit the dramatic moments and hidden challenges of Apollo 11's historic moon landing.
Apollo 11 The National Air and Space Museum holds approximately 17,000 space artifacts in its collection. More than 3,500 of those stem from the historic Apollo Moon landing effort, with 400 objects ...
Join us July 20 in Washington, D.C., as Purdue University celebrates the anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing and unveils a new international prize honoring excellence in space exploration.
The Soviets thought Luna 15 would land on the moon less than 2 hours after Apollo 11, but their landing was delayed 18 hours due to unknown terrain.
Apollo 11 (July 16-24, 1969) was the fourth manned flight of the program and the first manned landing on the moon. The mission objectives were to "perform a manned lunar landing and return; conduct ...
Although it’s been 52 years since the Apollo 11 mission first took man to the moon and 30 years since Tom Hanks famously told ...
(CNN) — Here’s a look at the first moon landing on July 20, 1969. The moon landing was watched by an estimated 600 million people around the world. July 20, 1969 - [4:17 p.m. EDT] Apollo 11 becomes ...
While we may remember the "one small step" more than anything else, the first Lunar Rover has its own interesting story ...
The way Ron explained it to me when we started was, 'Look, I'm not making a documentary. I'm making an entertaining movie ...