The first manned mission to the moon, Apollo 11, launched on July 16, 1969. The crew of NASA's Apollo 11 mission, from left, Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin, Michael Collins, and Neil Armstrong, pose with a ...

A fascinating letter by Neil Armstrong revealing how he would look out for aliens when landing on the moon has come to light 56 years on. Three months before the Apollo 11 mission, the astronaut ...

The useful life: about two and a half hours. The clothing in question: the spacesuit Neil Armstrong wore when he stepped on the moon 50 years ago next July. <!-- /wp:paragraph --><!-- wp ...

DERMOT O’LEARY: In 1969, Neil Armstrong was the first human being to set foot on the Moon and in doing so completely ... Can you try and paint the picture of how brave these guys must have ...

50 years after the historic Apollo 11 mission that landed the first humans on the moon, the Smithsonian celebrates by releasing the results of a multi-year conservation effort of Neil Armstrong’s ...

Neil A. Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon, was born Aug. 5, 1930 in Wapakoneta, Ohio. In 1947, Armstrong enrolled at Purdue University on a Navy scholarship to pursue a degree in ...

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NASA The Space Race that culminated in Neil Armstrong and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin's "one small step" onto the moon in 1969 began under a Republican president, Dwight Eisenhower; was accelerated by two ...

This week marks the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission, which first landed American astronauts on the moon's surface. Of the intrepid crew, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin have tended to ...