In July 1969, the Soviet N1 moon rocket detonated at Baikonur just days before Apollo 11, exposing how close, and how fragile, the Moon Race really was. Then an even darker launchpad catastrophe in ...
NASA spent years hunting for the original Apollo 11 slow scan and telemetry tapes that could have revealed a sharper, more complete record of humanity’s first steps on the Moon. What they found ...