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What the Apollo 11 Moon Landing Site Looks Like Today - 56 Years Later?

What Happened to the Apollo 11 Landing Site After 56 Years? In the absolute silence of the Moon, humanity left some of the loudest marks in history: footprints in the regolith, a laser reflector still ...
USA Today

New 'Apollo 11' documentary puts focus back on the American flag after 'First Man' backlash

Last awards season, Ryan Gosling's big-budget Neil Armstrong biopic and expected Oscar heavyweight got lost in space, picking up just one technical trophy for best visual effects. Many prognosticators ...
GeekWire

Check out Buzz Aldrin’s Apollo 11 flight manual before its multimillion-dollar sale

The Apollo 11 Lunar Module Timeline Book sits in a display case at the Living Computers Museum + Labs, with a picture of astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin in the background. (GeekWire Photo ...

'We could have lost the Apollo 11 crew:' A once-classified anomaly nearly killed NASA's first moon astronauts, a new book reveals

A new book about the Apollo program, "Eight Years to the Moon," suggests that a rogue space module nearly crashed into an astronaut space capsule.
Snopes.com

Was Pic Taken by Apollo 11 Crew Already on Nixon's Wall When He Spoke to Them by Phone?

An old photograph of then-U.S. President Richard Nixon purportedly shows him speaking by telephone to the astronauts of Apollo 11 soon after they landed on the moon in 1969 … while a photograph ...
PBS

Apollo 11 carried a message of peace to the Moon … but Neil and Buzz almost forgot to leave it behind

“How about that package out of your sleeve? Get that?” is certainly not the most famous phrase uttered by a human while on the Moon. And the items nestled in a small packet that astronaut Buzz Aldrin ...
Forbes

The Apollo 11 Crew Saw Something Incredible 50 Years Ago Today That No-One Ever Mentions

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. What could be better than walking on the moon? Seeing a ...
Engadget

The sneakers inspired by Apollo 11 and the Moon landing

NASA's Apollo 11 has had an outsize influence on our culture since July 20th, 1969. That's the day the spaceflight mission successfully completed its lunar landing, paving the way for Neil Armstrong ...

Anca Faur Aldrin, wife of NASA astronaut Buzz Aldrin, dies at 66. What to know

Anca Faur has died at 66. Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin married the chemical engineer Jan. 20, 2023, his 93rd birthday.
Forbes

Looking Back At Apollo 11, 50 Years Later

Liftoff of the Apollo 11 Saturn V space vehicle and astronauts Neil A. Armstrong, Michael Collins and Edwin E. Aldrin, Jr. I t was 50 years ago this week that astronauts Michael Collins, Buzz Aldrin ...