On July 20, 1969, NASA’s Apollo 11 mission made history when astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first humans to walk on the Moon, while Michael Collins orbited above in the command module. The landmark mission was watched by hundreds of millions of people around the world and remains one of the defining achievements in the history of space exploration. Apollo 11’s success paved the way for later lunar missions and reshaped humanity’s understanding of what was possible beyond Ea

The Louvre reopens its Apollo gallery months after a brazen heist