(CNN) — Here’s a look at the first moon landing on July 20, 1969. The moon landing was watched by an estimated 600 million people around the world. July 20, 1969 - [4:17 p.m. EDT] Apollo 11 becomes ...

A new mathematical study suggests that the abandoned Ascent Stage of the Apollo 11 mission's Eagle Lunar Module (LM), long believed to have crashed on the Moon in 1969, may be circling our largest ...

However, when Apollo 11 neared its destination, astronauts performed a braking manoeuvre known as "lunar orbit insertion" to slow the spacecraft and cause it to go into orbit around the Moon.

Everyone's heard of Apollo 11 and 13, ... This mission marked the first to orbit the moon. This meant that Apollo 8 took humans farther into space than anyone else had gone before.

Neil Armstrong, Apollo 11, 1969: The crew of the Apollo 11 mission -- from left Neil Armstrong, Mission Commander, Michael Collins, Lt. Col. USAF, and Edwin Eugene Aldrin, also known as Buzz ...

Crewmate Michael Collins remains behind in lunar orbit aboard the Apollo 11 command module. Aug. 15-18: Woodstock music festival. Oct. 29: First electronic message exchange with ARPANET, ...

The successful Apollo 11 mission delivered two American astronauts – Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin – to the lunar surface on July 20, 1969 (while Michael Collins famously remained in orbit). ...

Apollo 11, of course, was the mission that put men on the moon, and its astronauts Neil Armstrong (BSAE '55), ... Apollo 11 fell into orbit 60 miles above the moon's surface, and on July 20 at 1:45 ...

Apollo 11's Saturn V rocket needed a lot of power to launch into orbit and reach the Moon. Here's what engines the spacecraft used to accomplish its mission.

When Apollo 11 arrived in lunar orbit, the Soviet's probe was already there. By David Kerley, Mina Kaji, and Samantha Spitz. July 17, 2019, 9:31 PM. 3:43.

Apollo 8 launched in December 1968 and was the first crewed spacecraft to successfully orbit the moon and return to Earth. So the photograph in Nixon's Oval Office was taken long before Apollo 11 ...

Apollo 11's flight path took the spacecraft into Earth orbit 11 minutes after launch. Just over two hours later, during its second orbit, ...