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).

It took Apollo 11 and its astronauts four days, six hours, and 45 minutes to reach the moon. The mission initially aimed to send a three-person crew to orbit the moon, rather than landing on the ...

Moon walk up to Armstrong By EDWARD K . DeLONG, UPI Space Writer SPACE CENTER, HOUSTON, July 19, 1969 (UPI)--- Apollo 11 dropped into orbit around the moon today and started scouting the landscape ...

President John F. Kennedy established a national objective for NASA to accomplish a crewed lunar landing and facilitate a ...

An 18-karat gold version of the first watch worn on the moon has set a record for the most paid for an astronaut's timepiece.

How did it differ from the earth? What were the mascons, those mysterious subsurface objects, that perturbed the orbits of lunar satellites? Now, as NASA celebrates Apollo 11 with a series of events ...

This is a vintage oversize photograph from July 1969 of Earth taken by the Apollo 11 crew during the Apollo 11 trans-lunar coast. NASA (The National Aeronautics and Space Administration) is an ...

On October 4, 1957, the USSR launched Sputnik I, the first artificial satellite in history, into orbit. That program would ...

documentDiscover the secrets and stories of Apollo 11 Discover just how close the first Moon landing came to complete ... takes us on a ride from launch to orbit and the cosmos beyond for the ...