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Space race timeline
Explore and learn about the key events and achievements that shaped almost twenty years of competition between the United States and the Soviet Union
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The new space race: a high-stakes competition of politics and power
Competition between the USA, China and Russia will have consequences for all of us here on Earth. But how is this 21st century space race different to the last one?
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Astronomers Take Over
This brand-new interactive gallery gives curious minds aged 4 to 104 the space to play, learn and explore!
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Why did we stop going to the Moon?
In July 1969 humans landed on the Moon for the first time, as part of the Apollo 11 mission. But why haven't we been back since the Apollo 17 mission in 1972?
What's on at the Peter Harrison Planetarium
The Peter Harrison Planetarium is now closed; but there's a new planetarium experience at the National Maritime Museum's Astronomers Take Over