To commemorate the 46th anniversary of the first moon landing, the Smithsonian Institution has launched a crowd funding campaign to conserve Neil Armstrong's Apollo 11 spacesuit, which has fallen ...

One of the experiments from the Apollo 11 mission, the retroreflector array, is still in operation and providing valuable data 50 years later.

Spacecraft were supplied with protective window shades and sunglasses for astronaut use, and spacesuit helmets included a layer of gold to reflect the sun's rays during spacewalks. NASA transferred ...

We’ve received a few comments and questions about why our stretch goal for the Neil Armstrong #RebootTheSuit Kickstarter project is Alan Shepard’s Mercury Freedom 7 spacesuit. The short answer is that ...

Had the Apollo 11 Saturn V launch slipped to July 21 1969, then humanity's first steps on the moon would have been left in the regolith coating Oceanus Procellarum instead.