Apollo 11
Here’s a Montage of NASA Deliberately Crashing Spaceships
At NASA’s Landing Impact and Research Facility, crashing is the goal.
Who Is the Russian Billionaire Who Just Pledged $100 Million to Find Alien Life?
Yuri Milner is a venture capitalist with a scientist’s heart.
Kickstarter and the Smithsonian Want to Digitize Neil Armstrong's Spacesuit
The “Reboot the Suit” campaign is the first project from their planned partnership.
The Stars Down to Earth
The first installment of a five-part tour of life inside the most isolated space analog sites in the world.
Neil Armstrong's Moon Landing Heartbeat Is the Bassline in This Song
Berlin-based musician Louise Gold made a touching tribute for the 45th anniversary of the Moon landing.
The Mission to the Moon, As You've Likely Never Seen It Before
These uncommon images of Apollo 11 put the mission in a slightly different light, telling the familiar story from an unfamiliar perspective.
Chair Rockets and Demon Ladders: How Our Ancestors Imagined Going to the Moon
Over the centuries and across cultures, numerous ideas about how to get to our satellite have been bandied about, and they truly expose the depth of humanity's harebrained imagination.
For Sale: The EKG That Proves Neil Armstrong Wasn't Stressed About the Moon Landing
Don't you think you'd be a bit nervous to become the first person to walk on the Moon?
If They Couldn't Come Back from the Moon
''Fate has ordained that the men who went to the moon to explore in peace will stay to rest in peace," Nixon says to the camera. "For every human being who looks up at the moon in the nights to come will know that there is some corner of another world...
American Dreaming: Watching People Watch the Apollo 11 Launch
After years of lasting political turmoil brought on by the Vietnam War, matched with the heartbreaking assassinations of JFK, MLK and RFK, America’s "first trip to the moon":http://motherboard.vice.com/2012/7/16/turn-it-up-to-apollo-11-an-hd-remix-of...
Turn it Up to Apollo 11: A Motherboard Supercut
Forty three years ago, and forty two years before the Space Shuttle landed for the last time, three men would travel to the moon, set foot there, take a few photos, and come back. To get there, they used the only vehicle that’s ever brought humans past...
Neil Armstrong Gave an Incredibly Rare Interview to Whom?
Upon becoming the first man to step foot on the Moon, Neil Armstrong uttered perhaps the most famous line in American science history. And, well, he hasn't said much since. Armstrong is notoriously hard to interview, and compared to fellow Apollo 1...