Legendary astronaut and space pioneer Buzz Aldrin is celebrating his 96th birthday today, marking another remarkable milestone in a life that has helped define humanity’s journey beyond Earth.
"The people that lived and worked here, the room talks to them," Kranz said. Ahead of the 50th anniversary of the moon landing on July 20, NASA has restored the Apollo 11 mission control center to its ...
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV) - July 16, 1969. Apollo 11, the first US lunar landing mission, is launched at 9:32 a.m. Easter Daylight Time. The Cosmosphere in Hutchinson, Kansas, houses artifacts from the ...
When NASA’s Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin stepped on the moon in 1969 as the first humans, the length and extent of their extravehicular venture were mostly dictated by the ...
On July 20, 1969, Apollo 11 astronaut Neil Armstrong announced his historic arrival on the ancient lava plain of Mare Tranquillitatis with the following message to NASA: "Houston, Tranquility Base ...
It was July 1969, and humankind’s much-anticipated trip to the surface of the moon was days away. The public, and the newspapers, couldn’t get enough of the three “moon men” of Apollo 11: Neil ...
Today is Moon Day, Space Exploration Day and the anniversary of the first Apollo 11 moonwalk. Here’s a look at the Apollo program and the new Artemis program to return to the lunar surface. Screenshot ...
On September 22, 2011, just a year prior to his death, Neil Armstrong gave a rare public account of his final few thousand feet of descent to the surface of the moon on July 20, 1969, in the Lunar ...
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (KCRG) - Fifty-six years ago this week, astronaut Neil Armstrong coined one of the most famous lines in American history when he became the first person to walk on the moon. But you ...