Despite how momentous and well-documented the Apollo 11 moon landing on July 20, 1969, was, that doesn't mean everybody thinks what happened really happened. Conspiracy theories have an alluring pull ...

Following the success of Apollo 11, and the fulfilment of Kennedy's goal of landing a man on the Moon, questions hung over the future of the Apollo Program. With declining public interest in Moon ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV) - July 16, 1969. Apollo 11, the first US lunar landing mission, is launched at 9:32 a.m. Easter Daylight Time. The Cosmosphere in Hutchinson, Kansas, houses artifacts from the ...

CAPE CANAVERAL — The cosmos is providing a full moon for the 55th anniversary of the first lunar landing this weekend, and plenty of other events honor Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin’s giant leap.

"It was the kind of thing that only happens once in your life," Kranz said. As millions around the world watched the first lunar landing attempt, the employees at NASA's mission control center in ...

Tom Howarth is a Newsweek reporter based in Bristol, U.K. His focus is reporting on nature and science. He covers climate change, biodiversity, extreme weather, zoonotic diseases and more. Tom joined ...

Vivian Ayers Allen, a Pulitzer Prize–nominated poet, cultural activist, and one of the "Hidden Figures" honored for contributions to the Apollo 11 mission, died Aug. 18, 2025. She was 102. The mother ...