These are the 10 best things to do in Dallas this weekend

There's been a lot of excitement in and around Dallas over the past month with the FIFA World Cup in town, but that comes to ...
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Apollo 11 launch anniversary: Celebrating NASA’s historic mission that sent humanity to the moon

July 16 this year marks the 57th anniversary of the historic Apollo 11 mission, which saw two men walk on the Moon.
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OTD in Space – July 15: Apollo-Soyuz launch

On July 15, 1975, the first joint space mission between the United States and the Soviet Union blasted off into orbit. They ...

In 1969, three astronauts flew home from the Moon at nearly 40,000 kilometres per hour. Almost 60 years later, no human has gone faster

Nearly six decades have passed since three Apollo astronauts returned from the Moon at a speed that no human has surpassed.

E. Jean Carroll channels Apollo 11 after receiving Trump payout

With Trump payment secured, E. Jean Carroll echoed Neil Armstrong's words to mission control just before he became first ...
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How Rhode Island manufacturing helped men land on the moon

The Ashton Mill in Cumberland produced the material, Beta cloth, that protected Apollo spacesuits and was also used in the ...

An astronaut hid seeds in his luggage bound for the Moon: decades later they are still growing across the country

In 1971 Stuart Roosa — the command module pilot of Apollo 14 — carried hundreds of tree seeds around the Moon.

Ex-NASA boss points out small flaw in Moon landing plan: No lander

Former NASA boss Jim Bridenstine has warned that the space agency's plan to land astronauts on the Moon risks becoming too ...

‘Flight originated from the imagination’: how artists have captured space travel

As the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum turns 50, an expansive exhibition celebrates how art has coincided with space ...

Moon shot: The amazing story of how America ultimately beat the Soviet Union in the great space race

From the day the Soviets put an astronaut into space in April 1961, the race was on with America to get a man on the moon.

How Comedy Shaped American History, No Kidding

From Carl Reiner’s toupee to Carrie Bradshaw’s laptop, Funny Stuff: How Comedy Shaped American History explores comedy in America through the artifacts and memorabilia that have kept us in stitches.

What to see in the Air and Space Museum’s reopened galleries

In the five renovated spaces, you can try out a wind tunnel, climb into a Cessna Skyhawk, view artworks and visit old ...