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How NASA's Chris Kraft Helped Put Men on the Moon

By Jeffrey Kluger

Alternate Idea: Man Behind the Area 51 Raid Thinks an EDM Festival With 'Up and Coming' Guys Could Work Instead

By Rachel E. Greenspan

How Neil and Buzz Almost Were Stranded on the Moon in 1969

By Jeffrey Kluger

Here's What Happens When People Actually Approach Area 51

By Rachel E. Greenspan
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Google Celebrates 50th Anniversary of the Moon Landing With a Doodle

Collins did not leave any boot prints on the moon, but he was "the ticket home" the the men who did

By Julia Webster

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 moon landing

By Sanya Mansoor

'We Need That Boot Print.' Inside the Fight to Save the Moon's Historic Sites Before It's Too Late

Half a century after humankind first walked on the moon, our sole natural satellite is becoming a much busier place. NASA wants to make a return trip, as do private American space companies like Elon...

By Currie Engel

The Man Who Started the Area 51 Raid Says Things Have Gotten a Little Spooky

He hopes everyone knows it's a satirical page

By Rachel E. Greenspan

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 military technology. That work later fed into the space program

By Alejandro de la Garza

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 U.S. and U.S.S.R. initiated a bracing Cold War space race. The Soviets drew first blood in 1959: in that...

By TIME Staff

The Science Behind TIME's New Apollo 11 Moon Landing Augmented Reality Experience

It's now live in the TIME Immersive app for iPhone and Android

By TIME Staff

Musk Says We Can Land on the Moon in Less Than 2 Years

On July 12, TIME editor-at-large and space reporter Jeffrey Kluger had a far-ranging conversation with SpaceX CEO Elon Musk at the company’s headquarters in California. They discussed Musk’s reasons for starting SpaceX, his thoughts on...

By Jeffrey Kluger

Welcome to TIME Immersive's Apollo 11 'Landing on the Moon' Experience

Download the TIME Immersive App On July 20, 1969, Earth was missing three of its humans. They had left for the moon four days earlier, and now, two of them were preparing to descend from...

Dueling Superpowers, Rival Billionaires. Inside the New Race to the Moon

It's easier to love Apollo 11 if you were around to see it happen. For those who didn’t camp along the Cape Kennedy causeway to watch the Saturn 5 liftoff on July 16, 1969, or...

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

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's Miami bureau, instead zoomed in on the ordinary...

The Story Behind TIME’s Journey to Space

Editor-in-Chief and CEO Edward Felsenthal celebrates TIME's July 27, 2019 cover story

By Edward Felsenthal

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, very like rocks from the Earth

Area 51 Is the Internet's Latest Fascination. Here's Everything to Know About the Mysterious Site

The site's rumored alien secrets have gotten a reboot in the social media age

By Jasmine Aguilera

How the Area 51 Raid Meme Became the Galaxy's Biggest Joke

"Let's see them aliens"

By Raisa Bruner

From Satellites to the Moon and Mars, China Is Quickly Becoming a Space Superpower

While the American space program suffers from budget cuts and other turmoil, China has its eyes on Mars and beyond

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