On 1970, NASA cancelled the Apollo 20 moon mission. This came just six months after Apollo 11 astronauts Buzz Aldrin and Neil ...

The Cold War space race began with the Soviet Union's launch of Sputnik, the first artificial satellite. The United States responded with the launch of Explorer 1, which discovered the Van Allen ...

The Netflix documentary 'Apollo 13: Survival' gives a rare look at Jim Lovell, Jack Swigert and Fred Haise’s time in space Maddie Garfinkle has been contributing to PEOPLE since 2024. She has over six ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover the history of science and exploration. Fifty years ago this week, Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. When an explosion rocked Apollo 13's service module on April 13, 1970, the vehicle's vital role, ...

Space industry insiders have a love-hate relationship with Ron Howard’s 1995 film Apollo 13. On one hand, the movie depicted many aspects of NASA’s Apollo program with an extremely high degree of ...

The Apollo programme pushed space and computing technology to its limit. Cutting edge at the time, some of the tech used seems alarmingly simple today. 74: Memory (ROM) of Apollo guidance computer, in ...

In the first of BBC Future’s stories recounting the Apollo program in 50 numbers, we look at the people who helped make the Moon missions reality. 400,000: Total Apollo workforce Neil Armstrong was ...

Alex Knapp is a Forbes senior editor covering healthcare and science. R eaching the moon was a giant leap for mankind—and for the businesses behind the project. The Apollo program’s total cost was ...