A half-century ago, in the middle of a mean year of war, famine, violence in the streets and the widening of the generation gap, men from planet Earth stepped onto another world for the first time, ...
Frances 'Poppy' Northcutt speaks with a NASA colleague in Houston, Texas, circa 1969.TRW/PhotoQuest—Getty Images The boundary broken by the Apollo 11 astronauts, when they became the first humans to ...
Steve Bales isn’t a known name like astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin. But his critical ‘go’ decision during the Apollo 11 moon landing made a big difference in the history of the Cold War.