"I'm speechless!": How CBS News covered Apollo 11
Walter Cronkite launched an unprecedented 46 hours of live television for the historic mission to the moon
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Walter Cronkite launched an unprecedented 46 hours of live television for the historic mission to the moon
From 1969, Face the Nation sits down with the first men to walk on the moon.
Poppy Northcutt, Joann Morgan and Margaret Hamilton were critical to the success of the Apollo 11 mission
The United States spent some $288 billion, in inflation-adjusted dollars, to reach the moon
50 years ago, millions of people were glued to their television sets as Apollo 11 launched to the moon
The goal is to return to the lunar surface by 2024, but congressional budget approval remains a big if
Private investment in a range of space-related businesses is soaring, and it's not just for billionaire joy rides
The company has been searching for the cause of a catastrophic explosion that destroyed an unmanned Crew Dragon spacecraft in April
A timeline of major events in the decade-long race to land astronauts on the moon
The crew of Apollo 11 came together by chance for the first moon landing
Astronaut Michael Collins, Mission Control flight director Gene Kranz and spacecraft communicator Charlie Duke recount the first manned landing on the moon
Americans favor another U.S. mission to the moon and exploration of Mars
With alarms going off and fuel running low, the first moon landing was more of an edge-of-the-seat affair than most people realize
The following is a transcript of the full interview with historian Douglas Brinkley, part of which aired on Sunday, July 14, 2019, on "Face the Nation"
The following is a transcript of the interview with NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine that aired Sunday, July 14, 2019, on "Face the Nation"
Martha Teichner on the CBS News veteran's coverage of an epochal human event: Man landing on the moon
Jeffrey Kluger, editor-at-large at Time magazine, recounts the Apollo 11 mission, and the human landmark of landing men on the lunar surface
"We did something really, really big. Nobody else had done it before... And it took a lot of courage."
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