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 ...

Here’s how it works. People have invented a number of myths about the moon over the years. But Apollo 11's historic trip to the lunar surface in 1969 helped to debunk many of them, as it ...

However, due to the Space Race with Russia, President John F Kennedy announced the goal of landing an American on the moon’s surface, causing Apollo 11’s mission to change. The astronauts ...

Buzz Aldrin: Apollo 11: Astronaut Buzz Aldrin recalls moon landing, first moments on lunar surface 'A bigger place': Fifty years ago, Apollo 11 made the world a bigger place. Now, NASA is ready to ...

Tiny, orange glass beads discovered on the moon during the Apollo era may reveal an untold history of lunar volcanism.

A review of archives suggests that efforts to protect Earth from contamination by any organism brought back from the lunar surface ... astronauts of Apollo 11 went to the moon in July 1969 ...

Apollo 10 was pretty much a complete runthrough of getting to the moon's surface, as Apollo 11 soon would, without actually reaching it. Apollo 10 got within nine miles of the moon's surface.

Aldrin, 94, the last surviving member of the Apollo 11 crew ... outside on the moon, uttering “Magnificent desolation.” They spent just over two hours treading the dusty surface, before ...

Apollo 11’s lunar module reached the surface of the Moon on July 20, 1969. It was the culmination of nine years of work by the Apollo program. The three-person crew of Neil Armstrong ...

Apollo 11 astronaut Michael Collins, who orbited the moon alone while Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin made their historic first steps on the lunar surface, died Wednesday. He was 90. Collins died ...

The successful Apollo 11 mission delivered two American astronauts ... Earlier in the 1960s, the two superpowers had launched space probes to the moon's surface (the first one to achieve ...