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Otis Imboden

A hurricane batters the Florida coast. Scientists believe hurricanes are becoming more intense and moving more slowly due to climate change, increasing their impact on human settlements.

The cover story for the December 1969 issue was about Apollo 11—the first walk on the moon. Here, Dr. Robert Gilruth, director of the Manned Spacecraft Centre at NASA, celebrates the astronauts' safe return to Earth.

A hot air balloon makes a landing in a field north of Paris in June of 1982. The crew members inside were participating in a balloon race to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the first manned balloon flight.

In this unpublished photo from 1969, President Lyndon B. Johnson, First Lady Lady Bird Johnson, and Vice President Spiro Agnew are among the hundreds of people watching the launch of Apollo 11 at Kennedy Space Centre.

Spectators hang out around campsites in Cape Kennedy, Florida, in July 1969 awaiting the Apollo 11 launch.

A May 1969 National Geographic photograph shows Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins, and Buzz Aldrin standing near their spacecraft at Cape Kennedy.