Pen Buzz Aldrin used to save Apollo 11 moonwalkers goes on sale

Aldrin’s personal collection, including a pen used to replace a broken button on the lander, and Gus the $36 million T-rex ...
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First Moon Landing Fast Facts

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. Facts July 20, 1969 – [4:17 p.m. EDT] Apollo 11 becomes the ...

‘Flight originated from the imagination’: how artists have captured space travel

As the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum turns 50, an expansive exhibition celebrates how art has coincided with space ...

NASA's Kennedy Space Center VAB remains the heart of American space flight

A symbol of Florida's Space Coast, the VAB at Kennedy Space Center has powered moon missions past and present. Here is its ...

Moon shot: The amazing story of how America ultimately beat the Soviet Union in the great space race

From the day the Soviets put an astronaut into space in April 1961, the race was on with America to get a man on the moon.