On May 25, 1961, President John F. Kennedy stood before a joint session of Congress and challenged America to land a man on the Moon by the end of the decade. “No single space project in this period ...
The Apollo 11 Command Module Columbia—with its strangely beautiful charred orange exterior—has been on display behind Plexiglas at the Smithsonian Institution since 1970. After 46 years, you might ...
When an explosion rocked Apollo 13's service module on April 13, 1970, the vehicle's vital role, and that of the attached command module spacecraft, suddenly became crystal clear. The astronauts lost ...
The Smithsonian has added the Cincinnati Museum Center as the fifth and final stop on the national tour of “Destination Moon: The Apollo 11 Mission.” The exhibition celebrates the 50th anniversary of ...
This summer marks the 50th anniversary of the historic Apollo 11 moon mission, which saw human beings walk on the surface of the moon for the very first time. This mission was, without a doubt, one of ...
“Destination Moon: The Apollo 11 Mission,” a new exhibit celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Apollo moon landing, opens at the Museum of Flight in Seattle on Saturday, April 13. The exhibit ...
Michael Collins, the Apollo 11 astronaut dubbed “the loneliest man in history” for his role piloting the orbiting command module during the first Moon-landing Apollo mission, died on April 28 at the ...
A Dec. 7 Facebook post (direct link, archive link) shows an image of a stealth bomber in flight and another image of the bulky Apollo 11 lunar module on the moon's surface. The bomber is labeled, ...
Stare into the open hatch of Odyssey, the scarred Apollo 13 command module in which three American astronauts made their improbable return to Earth from a seemingly jinxed lunar mission, ...
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