A highly engaged group of conspiracy theorists can override a fact-based endeavor’s internet ads. This was a lesson that Benedict Redgrove, a photographer, said he took away from his recent attempt to advertise his space photo project on Facebook and Instagram. Another lesson was that flat earthers and lunar landing deniers can be difficult to […]
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By any measure, the summer of ’69 was, as the kids say today, “a lot.” June had the Stonewall riots, a landmark moment in the modern gay rights movement. July, the moon landing. August, the grisly Manson murders, followed by the endless mud of Woodstock. These events have been fodder for countless songs, movies, university […]
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Last fall, Neil Armstrong’s two sons began a round of media appearances to promote a venture that would make them millions of dollars: a series of auctions of about 3,000 mementos from their father’s moon mission and NASA career. “One Giant Sale” was CNBC’s headline, playing on the astronaut’s famous line, as Mark and Rick […]
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You’re reading In Her Words, where women rule the headlines. Sign up here to get it delivered to your inbox. Let me know what you think at dearmaya@nytimes.com. “My wish would be, all the photos in the future, there will always be women.” — JoAnn Morgan, the only woman in NASA’s firing room for the […]
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The chutes popped open and they splashed down in the Pacific. They’d been to the moon. Now — 50 years ago Wednesday — they’d returned to Earth. Floating upside down in the command module, its exterior blackened from the flames of re-entry, they waited for the capsule to right itself. “It was over,” Buzz Aldrin […]
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Christopher C. Kraft Jr., the legendary founder of NASA’s mission control, who directed America’s first piloted orbital flights, oversaw the Apollo 11 lunar landing and was director of the Johnson Space Center in Houston, died on Monday in Houston, two days after the 50th anniversary of that historic moment on the moon. He was 95. […]
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CHENNAI, India — The rocket is on the launchpad. The countdown has begun — again. India was all set on Monday for Take 2 of its historic moon launch, Chandrayaan-2, scheduled for 2:43 p.m. India time. Last week, Indian rocket scientists abruptly called off the uncrewed moon mission less than an hour before liftoff. They […]
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[Read all Times reporting on the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing. | Sign up for the weekly Science Times email.] A Chinese philosopher once said that exploration was a form of play. So it is fitting that the early artifacts of the Apollo moon landings, the grandest feat of exploration ever attempted, […]
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Expectations of Growth Despite No Visibility Rating: Dark We’re initiating coverage of the Moon with a cautiously optimistic view. Many investors are skeptical that we’ll see any sign of the Moon at all. Though past performance is never a guarantee of future results, historical indicators suggest that it is likely not only to appear, but […]
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Listen and subscribe to our podcast from your mobile device: Via Apple Podcasts | Via RadioPublic | Via Stitcher There are two stories from the 1960s that America likes to tell about itself — the civil rights movement and the space race. We look at the brief moment when the two collided. [For an exclusive […]
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ImageBuzz Aldrin became the second man to walk on the moon after he stepped off this ladder on July 20, 1969. CreditNeil Armstrong/SSPL, via Getty Images The most famous shoe print in the world is not on this world at all. It’s on the moon, probably still there in the gray dust. On July 20, 1969, […]
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No one who was alive then can forget the sights and sounds of that weekend in 1969. The drawling voices of “Houston” guiding the lunar module gingerly into its assigned parking place on the face of the moon. Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin floating with each step, like kids in one of those aptly named […]
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Before Neil Armstrong could take his small step down to the surface of a new world, before he and Buzz Aldrin could plant the flag, or scoop up moon rocks, or bunny-hop across the desolate lunar landscape, the astronauts of Apollo 11 had to take out the trash. From the porch of the lunar module, […]
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WASHINGTON — At his star-spangled Independence Day extravaganza this month, President Trump singled out Gene Kranz, the legendary Apollo flight director. “Gene,” the president said, “I want you to know that we’re going to be back on the moon very soon — and someday soon, we will plant the American flag on Mars.” What could […]
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To the Editor: Thank you for your terrific retrospective on the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing (“Slouching Toward Cosmic Destiny,” special section, July 14). Dennis Overbye poses the question “Why do we want to go to space?” The answer is that exploration is in our DNA. Neil Armstrong’s “one small step” on […]
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Image It is deceptively simple. It has heft. As he recalled in a recent interview: “That word, the ‘moon.’ It was the code word for inaccessible, unreachable.” This opening sentence, he said, put the amazing shift in humanity’s perception of the moon into terms of everyday life that any reader could relate to: “Not only […]
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[Read all Times reporting on the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing. | Sign up for the weekly Science Times email.] The television news director Joel Banow absorbed endless hours of “terrible old B movies” filled with extraterrestrials and rocket ships long before he oversaw the production of an authentic space opera. While […]
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[Read all Times reporting on the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing. | Sign up for the weekly Science Times email.] As we celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing, NASA has started Artemis, a program that aims “to return astronauts to the lunar surface by 2024, including the first […]
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[Read all Times reporting on the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing. | Sign up for the weekly Science Times email.] For half a century, Michael Collins has been answering variations of the same question asked by reporters, he says. “Mr. Collins, weren’t you the loneliest man in the whole lonely history of […]
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Fifty years ago this week, more than a million Americans drove, flew and even boated to Florida’s Cape Canaveral to witness the launch of Apollo 11, which would culminate four days later on July 20, 1969, with America’s victory over the Soviet Union in the race to the moon. Less than a month later, nearly […]
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