It was July 20, 1969 when Neil Armstrong became the first human to step foot on an extraterrestrial body—our Moon. Today is the 49th anniversary of that momentous event and we celebrate it in ...

CAPE CANAVERAL — Fifty years after pulling it off, the company that made the thing that landed the first men on the moon threw a party for the people who weren't on TV. "The LEM was the most reliable ...

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On this date 50 years ago, the jinxed Apollo 13 mission splashed down in the Pacific Ocean. The spacecraft’s lunar module never landed on the moon as intended, but considering everything that went ...

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