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What You Didn't Know About the Apollo 11 Mission

From JFK's real motives to the Soviets' secret plot to land on the Moon at the same time, a new behind-the-scenes view of an unlikely triumph 50 years ago
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Pieces of Apollo: The Story of Space Exploration by the Artifacts
Neil Armstrong's Spacesuit Returns to Public View
Celebrate Apollo 50 at the National Air and Space Museum

People

Rita Rapp Fed America’s Space Travelers

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Margaret Hamilton Led the NASA Software Team That Landed Astronauts on the Moon

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Smithsonian Curator Reflects on What 'First Man' Gets Right About Neil Armstrong's Journey to the Moon

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Eugene Cernan: The Last Man on the Moon and So Much More

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Meet the Brilliant Apollo Mastermind You’ve Never Heard Of

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The Paraglider That NASA Could Have Used, but Didn't, to Bring Astronauts Back to Earth

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The Missions to the Moon That Never Left the Drawing Board

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A Moonwalk Did Not Destroy Neil Armstrong's Spacesuit. Now Time Won't Either

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How NASA's Flight Plan Described the Apollo 11 Moon Landing

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Apollo's Legacy

A Smithsonian Curator Reflects on Apollo 10, the Mission That Made Landing on the Moon Possible

NASA Won’t Be Going ‘Back’ to the Moon—It Wants to Go Beyond It

In the Wake of Apollo’s 'Giant Leap,' What’s Next for Lunar Exploration?

Apollo 17 Was the Swan Song of Manned Space Exploration

What's Really Changed—and What Hasn’t—About Getting Humans to the Moon

The Legacy of the Apollo 1 Disaster

In Another Giant Leap, Apollo 11 Command Module Is 3-D Digitized for Humankind

Astronauts Fill Out Customs Forms, Too

The Moon Belongs to No One, but What About Its Artifacts?

After Space, Saving Suits, Boots and Gloves

Apollo's Cultural Mark

A Cross-Country Guide to Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the Moon Landing

Yes, the United States Certainly DID Land Humans on the Moon

How Apollo 8 ‘Saved 1968’

Remembering When JFK Sent Us to the Moon

Here’s What Nixon Would Have Said if Apollo 11 Hadn't Returned

Apollo 15's Al Worden on Space and Scandal

Moonwalk Launch Party

The Day Two Astronauts Said They Saw a U.F.O. Wearing a Red Suit