History is not written in stone. It is messy, accidental, and sometimes absurdly dependent on a single decision, a wrong turn ...

The Apollo Guidance Computer overloaded five times during Eagle's descent on July 20, 1969. Margaret Hamilton's team had ...

Jules Verne is often called the fathers of science fiction, and it’s not hard to see why. Long before NASA’s Apollo 11 ...

Long before laptops or calculators were anywhere near NASA's offices, there was a woman doing the math by hand who decided ...

NASA has selected the Artemis III crew for a high-stakes 2027 mission designed to test the future of lunar exploration.

A Santa Monica native and retired Marine colonel will take the helm of one of the most ambitious American space missions ...

Betsy Ross has long been known as the original creator of the first official American flag. However, historians have since questioned this narrative, according to the Smithsonian National Postal ...

Apollo 11 Command Module “Columbia,” 1969 On July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong became the first human to set foot on the Earth’s moon. On July […] ...

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History, science, art and everything in between can be found within the walls of thousands of museums around the world, so how do you narrow down the best? It’s no easy feat. The greatest museums are ...

In April, the world watched as NASA’s Artemis II successfully completed its nine-day mission of sending humans to the moon. In this bonus episode, we’re looking back at an archive interview about ...

The Pentagon has released hundreds of UFO-related files, including Apollo mission transcripts, military videos and eyewitness reports of unexplained aerial phenomena. While the disclosures have raised ...