The Backup Speech Nixon Was Prepared to Give if Apollo 11 Failed

The draft remains filed away in the National Archives as an eerie reminder of what could have been.

Far above the Earth, NASA’s Apollo lunar lander put astronauts on the moon

America's most daring, extraordinary feat, landing astronauts on the moon, remains the pinnacle of achievement by anyone anywhere.

Apollo 13 odyssey transfixed the nation, tested NASA's mettle

Apollo 13 odyssey transfixed the nation, tested NASA's mettle. After mission was aborted by explosion, Houston engineers guided crew home

Behind the scenes of Apollo 11 (2009)

While the three astronauts of Apollo 11 received the bulk of the attention for landing on the moon in 1969, 400,000 people worked behind the scenes to make it happen. Randall Pinkston reported on one of those important people back in 2009.