Apollo 11

To commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon landing, Omega is issuing a new version of the gold Speedmaster watches that were presented by the company to Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins in 1969.

To help preserve and make accessible the thousands of hours of recorded Apollo mission audio, a team of researchers at the University of Texas at Dallas used speech recognition technology to unscramble and analyze the conversations between astronauts, mission control, and technicians.

​​By January 2019, the Space Center Houston (SCH) is hoping to fully restore the historic Apollo Mission Control Center (MCC) back to its former 1969 glory, ready for the 50th anniversary of humankind’s first steps on the Moon.

This year, one of the most important artifacts of the Space Age, the Columbia command module of the Apollo 11 mission​, will leave its home at the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum for the first time in almost 50 years as the centerpiece of an exhibition traveling to museums across the US.

It's not easy – or cheap – to get your hands on authentic Apollo 11 memorabilia. A team based out of Melbourne, Australia is trying to change that by reproducing the original Apollo 11 flight plans, right down to the paper stock, fonts, line spacing and positioning on the page as the originals.​

March 23 marked the 50th anniversary of the launch of Gemini III - the first manned mission of the now legendary Gemini program. Gemini was tasked with testing the technologies and techniques that would lead America to victory in the space race.

A bag full of Apollo 11 relics that traveled into space aboard the Eagle Lunar Module (LM) has been discovered decades after the mission touched down, hidden in Neil Armstrong's closet.

As of July 20th, it will be officially 45 years since astronauts first walked on the moon. To mark the occasion, General Electric has teamed up with high-end footwear manufacturer Android Homme and clothing retailer JackThreads to create a limited-edition sneaker known as The Missions.

Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos has announced that one of the F-1 rocket engines found by his Bezos Expeditions was indeed part of the Apollo 11 Saturn V rocket that sent the first astronauts to land on the Moon in 1969.

RR Auction is hosting a major sale of aerospace memorabilia from the past century.

Amazon.com founder and the man behind Blue Origin, Jeff Bezos, has recovered parts of the F-1 rocket engines used to send the Apollo missions into space.

Tranquillityite, the last of three minerals brought back by the Apollo 11 astronauts in 1969 that were thought to be unique to the Moon has been discovered in the Pilbara region of Western Australia.