He has some first-hand knowledge of this: nearly 40 years ago, Fienberg debated one of the first prominent moon landing deniers, Bill Kaysing, on TV. Apollo 11: JFK’s Secret Space Tapes The initial claims the moon landing was staged came at a time when the Pentagon Papers and ...
One can debate the historical significance of the moon landing, but in 500 years, the historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr. wrote in 1999, when "Pearl Harbor will be as remote as the War of the Roses," the Apollo 11 moon landing may well be remembered as the most significant event of the 20...
Apollo 11, U.S. spaceflight in which astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first people to walk on the Moon. Apollo 11 was the culmination of the Apollo program and a massive national commitment by the United States to beat the Soviet Unio
It's time, we will finally do the first manned landing on another celestial body. During this mission we will require both the docking and EVA know-how from the Gemini 6A and 7 mission, as well as what we learned about moon landing from Luna 9. The six moon landings of the Apollo ...
Celebrate the 50th anniversary of the first ever manned moon landing with the NASA Apollo 11 Lunar Lander replica model. This LEGO® Creator Expert interpretation of the Apollo 11's Eagle lunar module comes with an array of realistic features and functions, including a descent stage with gold-...
Neil Armstrong looking on earth from the moon.If somehow you missed Apollo 11's flight to the moon in 1969 (indeed you might not have been born yet), fear not: The perfect documentary about those three real superheroes is here. The titular doc stars Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and ...
The Apollo program was a human spaceflight program undertaken by NASA during the years 1961 – 1975 with the goal of conducting manned moon landing missions. John F. Kennedy announced this goal in 1961, and it was accomplished on July 20, 1969 by Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin during the Ap...
Apollo 10 1/2: A Space Age Adventure: Directed by Richard Linklater. With Milo Coy, Jack Black, Lee Eddy, Bill Wise. A coming-of-age story set in the suburbs of Houston, Texas in the summer of 1969, centered around the historic Apollo 11 moon landing.
Trump Honors 50th Anniversary of Apollo 11 Moon Landing in State of the Union Speech He then addressed Apollo program flight director Gene Kranz, who was in attendance at yesterday's event. "Gene, I want you to know that we're going to be back on the moon very soon, and, someday ...
And given the comparatively primitive state of the technology at the time (compared to that available today with its risk-adverse culture), I find it amazing that the Apollo 11 mission was even attempted at all. But a Moon landing was attempted and succeeded not just once, but a total of...