On the morning of July 16, 1969, Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins lifted off for the moon. Four days later, Mr. Armstrong and Mr. Aldrin set foot on the moon’s surface, the first of 12 American astronauts to complete this feat. Apollo 11 fascinated the world, with hundreds of millions tuning in to watch it on TV. It also changed the way we understood our solar system.

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Fifty years later, the amazement caused by Apollo 11 has not worn off. The New York Times has been covering the anniversary of the moon landing, looking back at the event’s meaning, and forward to humankind’s next giant leaps in space.

Here is a roundup of some of our reporting this year on Apollo 11.

Seeing the moon landing in new ways

The story of Apollo 11 never really gets old, nor does seeing pictures of the amazing scenes that surrounded it. From the astronauts preparing for their mission to the rocket launching to those first bootprints on the moon’s surface, we collected some of our favorite pictures here.

And you’ve never experienced the moon landing like this before: as though you were on the moon’s surface, holding one of the cameras that made pictures brought back to Earth. Experience it here — it works great on a smartphone or on your desktop computer.