The Apollo Theater, a legendary New York City venue that has hosted the likes of Billie Holiday, Aretha Franklin, Jimi Hendrix, Stevie Wonder and more, is the subject of a new documentary from HBO.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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: ...

The 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 lunar landing is upon us, and in that time, there has been plenty of ink spilled about the implications, technical specifications, individuals, and historical ...

On this day in aviation and space history, 57 years ago (October 10, 1968), NASA launched Apollo 7-the first successful crewed mission of the Apollo program. At precisely 15:02:45 UTC, a Saturn IB ...

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 ...

This was the designation that the crew wanted to use for the first test flight (originally called AS-204) of the Apollo command and service modules (CSM). On Jan. 27, 1967, a fire on the launch pad ...

In a culture steeped in high technology, from wearable computers to the internet of things and rockets that fly themselves back to pinpoint touchdowns, the Apollo 11 moon landing and Neil Armstrong's ...