As part of our Summer of Space, Roger Highfield, Science Director, talks to Buzz Aldrin about the tense moments before the first lunar landing on July 20, 1969.
What if the Soviet hammer and sickle had been the first flag on the Moon, rather than the Stars and Stripes? Roger Highfield, Science Director, talks to cosmonaut Alexei Leonov, who trained to be the first to walk on the Moon.
Follow this under 7s trail and go on a journey of exploration and discovery around the Science Museum this summer.
As the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission draws nearer, Science Museum curator John Liffen reminisces about watching the launch from the museum.
Follow this transport trail and go on a journey of exploration and discovery around the Science Museum this summer.
Follow this codebreaking and communications trail and go on a journey of exploration and discovery around the Science Museum this summer.
Follow this space trail and go on a journey of exploration and discovery around the Science Museum this summer.
Dr. Gillian Forrester from Me, Human and Birkbeck, University of London investigates how traits from our 500 million-year-old brain still underpin some of our most important human behaviours, as part of a Live Science residency at the Science Museum.
Assistant Curator Martha Clewlow explores the robots and Artificial Intelligence algorithms creating art.
Curator Isabelle Lawrence looks at the bebionic hand, an exciting new addition to our collection, and the history and future of artificial limbs.
Over 50,000 images are now in our online collection, to celebrate we went behind the scenes with our photography team.
Art curator, Katy Barrett, explores the art of engineering in a series of drawings by James Capper.