A NASA intern who paid $217.77 for the original videotapes of the Apollo 11 moonwalk sold them $1.8 million at a Sotheby’s auction Saturday. That’s 8,000 times what intern Gary George paid for the ...

A former NASA intern who paid $218 for a box of Apollo 11 tapes in 1976 had a huge payday when they were auctioned off for more than 8,000 times that amount – a whopping $1.8 million. Sotheby’s ...

(CNN)-- On July 20, 1969, NASA put a man on the moon and captured it all on tape. In 1976, the space agency unknowingly sold those tapes of original footage from the Apollo 11 lunar mission to a lucky ...

Leslie Katz led a team that explored the intersection of tech and culture, plus all manner of awe-inspiring science, from space to AI and archaeology. When she's not smithing words, she's probably ...

Three film reels containing footage of man’s first steps on the moon sold Saturday for just over $1.8 million at auction, about 8,000 times more than what a Las Vegas engineer paid for them in the ...

NASA's Apollo missions in the 1960s and '70s served not only to land Americans on the lunar surface but to answer key questions about the moon that could be answered only by going there. As often ...

The story of NASA’s “missing” Apollo 11 moon tapes has long been treated as a smoking gun by conspiracy theorists, a tantalizing gap in the record of humanity’s first steps on another world. In ...

As Neil Armstrong prepared to take his "one small step" onto the moon in July 1969, a specially hardened video camera tucked into the lander's door clicked on to capture that first human contact with ...

A Kansas City law firm has filed suit over what it claims is its financial stake in five small strips of possibly-moon-dust-stained carbon tape, extending an already complicated — and, at times, ...