Peering at the sunlit skies through a Vatican-owned space telescope and calling the last surviving member of the Apollo 11 spaceflight mission was how Pope Leo XIV celebrated the ...

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The Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum is one step closer to completing its multiyear renovation this summer by opening new galleries and more.

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Pope Leo XIV celebrated the anniversary of the of the Apollo 11 spaceflight mission, the first crewed moon landing.

Fifty-six years later, it still remains the most followed and most romantic space mission yet. In April 1968, the now-legendary 2001: A Space Odyssey had shown ...

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On July 20, 1969, humanity achieved one of its greatest milestones: landing a person on the Moon. The Apollo 11 mission, launched by the United States' National Aeronautics and Space Administration ...

International Moon Day celebrates humanity's accomplishments in space, its prospects, and the universalism that binds us all together under the moon.