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Thomas Ellis charted the frantic efforts to bring the crew of Apollo 13 home. (Image by Getty Images)
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The race to save Apollo 13

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Hidden Figures: the incredible real history behind the film

Yuri Gagarin before the first space flight, 12 April 1961. (Credit: RIA Novosti)
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In pictures: Soviet cosmonauts and the birth of the space age

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Q&A How did Area 51 become associated with aliens?

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NASA’s unknown Welsh hero: the story of Tecwyn Roberts

Kendrick Oliver explores the space race that led to the 1969 moon landing and considers the legacy of the momentous events of July 1969. (Photo by NASA/Newsmakers/Getty Images)
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The race to the moon

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BBC Sky At Night Magazine Sir Patrick Moore’s memories of Apollo 11

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BBC Science Focus Magazine Small steps: How NASA prepared for the first moonwalk

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BBC Sky at Night Magazine Where did the Apollo astronauts land on the Moon?

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The Space Race: The Cold War rivalry that put humans on the Moon

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Science Focus podcast Why is the Moon landing still relevant 50 years on?

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Ye final frontier: the 17th-century space race

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Back down to Earth: the legacy of the 1969 moon landing

Gerald Heard had a peculiar idea that the UFOs then being sighted all across the globe, as such as this ‘sighting’ in Sicily, were piloted not by humanoid ETs, as you may have presumed, but by alien super-bees from Mars. (Photo by Bettmann/Getty Images)
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6 of history’s strangest ever theories about outer space

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