The year before the Apollo 11 launch, for instance, the Chicago Daily News published an illustration by the Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist John Fischetti that contrasted the technological ...

Meanwhile, the National Air and Space Museum opened an exhibit of paintings and drawings by Apollo 12 astronaut/artist Alan Bean.

Hundreds of people stopped by the Apollo 11 launch to protest poverty in the U.S.

Vice President Mike Pence is marking the 50th anniversary of humanity's first moon landing at the Apollo 11 launch site. Moonwalker Buzz Aldrin accompanied Pence to Florida's Kennedy Space Center ...

The Apollo 11 mission put a man on the moon, but NASA didn’t necessarily preserve every step of the process. Researchers are trying to rescue the history on Earth and on the moon.

Apollo 11 took off for the moon this week in 1969. To prepare the astronauts, Nasa put them through gruelling, relentless simulations – and BBC Tomorrow's World paid a visit.

A look back at July 16, 1969, a day etched into American history when Apollo 11 launched from the Kennedy Space Center for NASA's historic lunar mission.

Apollo 11 Launch: Photographed Read more at http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/We-Have-Liftoff.html Photographer David Burnett focused his camera on ...

In the months preceding the Apollo 11 launch, computer scientists had deliberately triggered numerous restarts in simulation. The operating system had never failed to preserve the critical data.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Apollo 11 astronaut Michael Collins returned Tuesday to the exact spot where he and two other astronauts flew to the moon 50 years ago. At NASA’s invitation ...

Image and sound were fitted together like a puzzle. At points, onscreen text links the footage before our eyes with facts such as Apollo 11’s precise velocity, distance from Earth and fuel level.