The spacecraft that carried the crew of the first moon landing to and from Earth 50 years ago has just had its current mission extended. The Smithsonian, which has been touring the command module ...

For more than 40 years, the Apollo 11 command module, Columbia, was viewable under a Plexiglas shield at the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum (NASM) in Washington, where curators reentered ...