He was assigned as command pilot for the Gemini 8 mission. Gemini 8 was launched on March 16, 1966, and Armstrong performed the first successful docking of two vehicles in space. As spacecraft ...

Neil Armstrong was appreciative, but it was too late. The Apollo 11 crew had a design for the first moon landing. Armstrong's ...

All but one of the lunar module pilots, in contrast, underwent deep and lasting personal transformations (some of which were ...

Apollo 11 saw Commander Neil Armstrong in the left seat, and Lunar Module Pilot Buzz Aldrin in the right seat. After piloting the lunar module Eagle down to the first-ever Moon landing ...