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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

Participants run next to Miura fighting bulls on the last bullrun of the San Fermin festival in Pamplona, northern Spain, on July 12, 2019.

Pamplona's Bull Runs Have a Controversial Past. Do They Still Have a Future?

It takes about three and a half minutes to complete what's perhaps the worl...

It takes about three and a half minutes to complete what's perhaps the world’s most controversial race. Each year in the second week of July, six bulls are released every day at 8 a.m. into...

Mission Control celebrating the splashdown of the Apollo 11 astronauts. Image dated July 24, 1969.

They Were at Mission Control During Apollo 11. 50 Years Later, the Memory Still Moves Them to Tears

"We copy you on the ground. You got a bunch of guys about to turn blue. We'...

"We copy you on the ground. You got a bunch of guys about to turn blue. We're breathing again."

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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

Pamplona's Bull Runs Have a Controversial Past. Do They Still Have a Future?

They Were at Mission Control During Apollo 11. 50 Years Later, the Memory Still Moves Them to Tears

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