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 ...

A half-century ago, in the middle of a mean year of war, famine, violence in the streets and the widening of the generation gap, men from planet Earth stepped onto another world for the first time, ...

On this day in 1969, NASA formally announced the prime crew selected to carry out the Apollo 11 mission, a decision that would soon mark one of the most defining moments in human history.

Apollo 11 - Landing on the Sea of Tranquility - July 20, 1969. 16mm landing film by Gary Neff, source footage courtesy John Knoll. Full description: http://history ...

International Moon Day was celebrated on July 20, observing the 56th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing. The Apollo 11 mission, which launched from Florida, kickstarted a rich history of rocket ...

Steve Bales isn’t a known name like astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin. But his critical ‘go’ decision during the Apollo 11 moon landing made a big difference in the history of the Cold War.