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NASA Saturn V Rocket Exhibit at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Image by Harry J. Kazianis.

NASA Saturn V Rocket Exhibit at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Image by Harry J. Kazianis.

Space and Technology

57 years ago today, three astronauts lifted off atop a Saturn V aimed so precisely at the Moon that the trip needed just two course corrections — and the route home was a “free return,” designed to carry them back without the engines ever firing

Fifty-seven years ago today, on July 16, 1969, three astronauts sat atop a Saturn V and lifted off on the most dangerous flight ever...

Brent M. EastwoodJuly 16, 2026

Apollo 11 and Saturn V Exhibit at the Kennedy Space Center. Taken on 6/28/2026 by 19FortyFive.com

Apollo 11 and Saturn V Exhibit at the Kennedy Space Center. Taken on 6/28/2026 by 19FortyFive.com

Space and Technology

After walking on the Moon, the Apollo 11 crew spent three weeks locked in quarantine — in case they’d brought back lunar germs — and greeted the world through glass.

The first men on the Moon came home to a locked box. For three weeks after splashdown, Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins...

Brent M. EastwoodJuly 2, 2026

Saturn V Rocket

Saturn V Rocket

Space and Technology

While Apollo 11 Was on the Moon, a Secret Soviet Probe Was Racing to Grab Moon Rocks and Beat the Astronauts Home

As Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walked on the Moon in July 1969, a second spacecraft was circling overhead, and almost no one knew....

Brandon WeichertJune 28, 2026

Apollo 11 Command Module 19FortyFive Original Photo from the Smithsonian

Apollo 11 Command Module 19FortyFive Original Photo from the Smithsonian

Space and Technology

While Armstrong and Aldrin walked on the Moon in July 1969, a Soviet robot was already circling overhead, racing to drill the lunar surface and rush its own samples back to Earth before Apollo 11 could splash down — until it crashed into a mountainside in Mare Crisium with the whole secret race nearly unknown to the public.

The story of Luna 15 is one of the great "what ifs" of the Space Race, and one most Americans have never heard. While...

Brandon WeichertJune 26, 2026

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