Here’s how it works. The historic launch of the Apollo 11 mission carried three astronauts toward the moon. Two of them would set foot on the lunar surface for the first time in human history as ...

Jeff Hessel worked at Cape Canaveral in the heyday of the U.S. space program. He now lectures about the experience to groups ...

Borman, whose lunar orbiting mission in December 1968 paved the way for the Apollo 11 moonwalk seven months later, believes winning the race changed history on Earth. If the Soviets had landed on ...

When Neil Armstrong took his first steps on the moon 55 years ago, he also collected lunar rocks and soil along the way to ...

The moon landing, which celebrates 50 years this week, was a moment of unity; a moment when the world finally became smaller because we touched a piece of the really big universe. But it was also ...

Kennedy’s dream of putting a man on the moon was realized, and it left New Yorkers spellbound. On July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed Apollo 11’s lunar module, the Eagle ...

CAPE CANAVERAL — The cosmos is providing a full moon for the 55th anniversary of the first lunar landing this weekend, and plenty of other events honor Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin’s giant ...

A re-airing of footage from Apollo 11's moon landing for the 20th anniversary. Javascript must be enabled in order to access C-SPAN videos. *This text was compiled from uncorrected Closed Captioning.

The "STEP INTO THE FUTURE" backpack features a lunar design embossed with an astronaut footprint, reminiscent of the first moonwalk during the Apollo 11 mission. Before we could blast off with the ...

It’s been over 50 years since the Apollo 11 mission landed humans on the moon, and in that time, we’ve learned a lot more about what happened during that historic event. Here are five facts ...

Languages: English. A piece of moon rock gifted to Ireland following NASA's historic Apollo 11 mission in 1969 was tragically destroyed in a fire, newly uncovered documents from Ireland's National ...

An old photograph of then-U.S. President Richard Nixon purportedly shows him speaking by telephone to the astronauts of Apollo 11 soon after they landed on the moon in 1969 … while a photograph ...