May 16 is known for a lot of firsts: the first spaceflight landing humans on the moon, the first parking meter, the first ...

These digits may seem like a random number sequence, but for a select few people in this country's history, they mean everything. More than 400,000 people worked tirelessly to put astronauts Neil ...

On 26 May 1969, the command module of Apollo 10 hit Earth’s atmosphere travelling at 36,397 feet per second, or 39,937.7 ...

NASA engineer Frances "Poppy" Northcutt and Apollo: Missions to the Moon director, Tom Jennings, talk about never-before-seen footage of NASA's historic expedition to the moon. Journalist Bonnie ...

More than half a century after humans first walked on the Moon, the race to return to Earth’s closest celestial neighbour is entering a new era. The historic lunar missions of the NASA-led Apollo ...

President John F. Kennedy’s proposal to Congress in May 1961 to land a man on the moon before the decade’s end was met not with unified support, but resounding skepticism, borne out in a Gallup poll ...

We've all seen footage from the Apollo 11 mission, when the world watched as two American men walked on the moon for the first time. It was the stuff of fantasy made real, not science fiction but ...

On April 13, 1970, Apollo 13’s oxygen tank exploded damaging the spacecraft. Media coverage changed from a story about a mission to the moon, to a mission to save the crew of Apollo 13. Page one from ...

The Vault is Slate’s history blog. Like us on Facebook, follow us on Twitter @slatevault, and find us on Tumblr. Find out more about what this space is all about here. The new book Marketing the Moon: ...

When Apollo 17 astronauts collected a small rock from the moon more than 50 years ago, they had no way of knowing it would still be challenging scientists' understanding of lunar history today. The ...