Aldrin’s personal collection, including a pen used to replace a broken button on the lander, and Gus the $36 million T-rex ...
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 ...
As the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum turns 50, an expansive exhibition celebrates how art has coincided with space ...
A symbol of Florida's Space Coast, the VAB at Kennedy Space Center has powered moon missions past and present. Here is its ...
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.
Pet rocks, bell bottoms, disco, day-glo and movies like “Close Encounters of the Third Kind” defined the 1970s. Another thing that captured the imagination of the nation in ...
With astrophysicists and wildlife ecologists, art conservators and security officers, this discussion series invites visitors ...
The famed Apollo 13 rescue has been the focus of several movies, including a 2024 Netflix documentary. Not all the films have ...
Despite Neil Armstrong's towering accomplishments, he remained a humble man. Armstrong, who is from Wapakoneta, Ohio, always ...
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