On July 24, 1969, Apollo 11 met President Kennedy’s 1961 challenge of “landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the earth” before the end of the decade. The Smithsonian celebrates and ...

Dueling Superpowers, Rival Billionaires. Inside the New Race to the Moon The Story Behind TIME's 1969 Apollo Launch-Party Photos See the Past, Present and Future of American Spaceflight in 4 Minutes ...

Despite being our closest celestial neighbor, the Moon, located roughly 240,000 miles away, has been out of our reach for millennia, with a journey to the natural satellite seeming all but impossible ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — NASA’s Apollo moonshots are a tough act to follow, even after all this time. As four astronauts get set to blast off on humanity’s first trip to the moon in more than half a ...