On this day in 1969, NASA formally announced the prime crew selected to carry out the Apollo 11 mission, a decision that would soon mark one of the most defining moments in human history.
As Apollo 11 unfolded, the White House quietly prepared for the possibility that Armstrong and Aldrin would never return. This is the story of William Safire’s haunting memo, the speech Nixon was ...
It was July 1969, and humankind’s much-anticipated trip to the surface of the moon was days away. The public, and the newspapers, couldn’t get enough of the three “moon men” of Apollo 11: Neil ...
NASA spent years hunting for the original Apollo 11 slow scan and telemetry tapes that could have revealed a sharper, more complete record of humanity’s first steps on the Moon. What they found ...