On July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong became the first human to set foot on the Earth’s moon. On July 16, 1969, Armstrong, Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin and Michael Collins were launched from Cape Kennedy atop a ...

WASHINGTON – For almost 40 years, the Apollo 11 command module has rested behind a plastic shield in the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum. Now visitors may not have to journey to Washington ...

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A Dec. 7 Facebook post (direct link, archive link) shows an image of a stealth bomber in flight and another image of the bulky Apollo 11 lunar module on the moon's surface. The bomber is labeled, ...

Click to open image viewer. As part of the Apollo program, a number of so-called "boilerplate" (BP) command modules were constructed to undergo various tests and to serve as training vehicles for ...

US President Nixon had a speech prepared for him just in case Armstrong and his colleagues would not have made it back to Earth On July 20, 1969 (July 21 in Malta), two astronauts in the lunar module ...

In this video, we focus on the Saturn V rocket, which launched the Apollo spacecraft into orbit. Notably, there were 13 ...

“That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.” Those historic words were spoken by Apollo 11 astronaut Neil Armstrong when he became the first human to set foot on the moon, on July 20, ...

It may contain inaccuracies due to the limitations of machine translation. Astronaut Michael Collins, who accomplished the historic feat of the first human Moon landing through the ‘Apollo 11’ mission ...