History

The July 18 and July 25, 1969, covers of TIME

Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin Were Supposed to Nap After Landing on the Moon, But They Couldn't Wait to Walk

And other highlights from TIME's original 1969 coverage of the Apollo 11 mo...

And other highlights from TIME's original 1969 coverage of the Apollo 11 moon landing

An anti-Bolshevik political cartoon published in the July 5, 1919, Literary Digest.

A Century Before Trump's ICE Raids, the U.S. Government Rounded Up Thousands of Immigrants. Here's What Happened

The anti-immigrant sentiment that fueled the raids came from a combination ...

The anti-immigrant sentiment that fueled the raids came from a combination of factors

Werner von Braun (1912-1977), the German-born American rocket engineer with model rockets.

How Historians Are Reckoning With the Former Nazi Who Launched America's Space Program

In Operation Paperclip, German scientists were taken to the U.S. to develop...

In Operation Paperclip, German scientists were taken to the U.S. to develop military technology. That work later fed into the space program

View, during NASA's Apollo 12 mission, of the 'Intrepid' Lunar Module as it descends to the surface of the moon, November 19, 1969.

Here's Every Single Mission to the Moon in One Chart

Humans started to work in earnest to get to the moon in the 1950s, when the...

Humans started to work in earnest to get to the moon in the 1950s, when the U.S. and U.S.S.R. initiated a bracing Cold War space race. The Soviets drew first blood in 1959: in that...

At 9:32 AM, the rocket took off. Lillah and Stephen Robb, standing in the light-blue and green-plaid shirts, then 30 and 28, watched with the crowd.

The Story Behind TIME's 1969 Apollo Launch-Party Photos

To photograph a moon mission, the obvious direction to point your camera wo...

To photograph a moon mission, the obvious direction to point your camera would be up. But David Burnett, a 22-year-old photographer who was based out of TIME‚ Miami bureau, instead zoomed in on the ordinary...

With a half-Earth in the background, the Lunar Module ascent stage with Astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin Jr. approaches for a rendezvous with the Apollo Command Module manned by Michael Collins, during the Apollo 11 mission in 1969.

How the Apollo Program Changed Our Understanding of What the Moon Even Is

Apollo samples showed that rocks from the Moon were, in important ways, ver...

Apollo samples showed that rocks from the Moon were, in important ways, very like rocks from the Earth

A woman shouts slogans while marching through the city centre during a demonstration by hundreds of school children calling for action on climate change in South Africa, on June 14, 2019, in Cape Town, as part of the international Extinction Rebellion (XR) environmental protests.

The Woman Who Discovered the Cause of Global Warming Was Long Overlooked. Her Story Is a Reminder to Champion All Women Leading on Climate

We can't let that happen to women working on climate science today, writes ...

We can't let that happen to women working on climate science today, writes Katharine Wilkinson

History

Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin Were Supposed to Nap After Landing on the Moon, But They Couldn't Wait to Walk

A Century Before Trump's ICE Raids, the U.S. Government Rounded Up Thousands of Immigrants. Here's What Happened

How Historians Are Reckoning With the Former Nazi Who Launched America's Space Program

Here's Every Single Mission to the Moon in One Chart

The Story Behind TIME's 1969 Apollo Launch-Party Photos

How the Apollo Program Changed Our Understanding of What the Moon Even Is

The Woman Who Discovered the Cause of Global Warming Was Long Overlooked. Her Story Is a Reminder to Champion All Women Leading on Climate

Most Popular Stories

Subscribe & Save

Sign Up for Our Newsletters