NASA sent astronauts to the Moon armed with grenades and mortars, not for war, but to crack open the lunar surface's deepest secrets. What they found buried beneath the crust raised more questions ...
In June 1976, an engineering student left a government surplus sale with about1,150 reels of magnetic tape for $217.77. Three of them, hand-labeled “Apollo 11 EVA,” reached $1.82 million at auction ...
The next space race is not about making rockets faster, bigger or more capacious, but about reusing them reliably and cheaply ...