Tag: Apollo 11

Today in 1978, the American release date of what looked like a blockbuster movie musical: "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band," starring some of the biggest music and movie stars of the era. Yeah, it didn't go so well.

Today is International Chess Day, so here are a few of the stories about how which pieces were on the board changed over the centuries.

A broken switch threatened to keep Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin from returning to Earth. Fortunately, they had a solution: office supplies.

Yes, they'd finished their moon landing, but they had to go into quarantine in case they'd picked up some "moon germs" that could lead to a plague on Earth. (Fortunately, they hadn't.)

50 years ago, the BBC broadened its space coverage with the band known for playing space rock.

Imagine if he'd come down the ladder, planted his foot on lunar soil and said, "Win the game... and you win the world"?