It was an image that defined an era of space exploration. In 1969, an estimated 600 million people watched from their living ...
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 ...
As Apollo 11 unfolded, NASA and the White House quietly prepared for the unthinkable. This is the forgotten story of the speech President Nixon was ready to deliver if Armstrong and Aldrin were ...
“Original, First-Generation NASA Videotape Recordings of the Apollo 11 Lunar EVA” (1969) (image courtesy Sotheby’s) The Sotheby’s Space Exploration Auction — comprised of photographs, tapes, models, ...