An instant later, at 10:56 p.m., Armstrong stepped off the footpad and onto the the finely-powdered surface. “That’s one small step for (a) man, one giant leap for mankind.” Whether he inadvertently ...

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 ...

Astronaut Edwin E. "Buzz" Aldrin, Jr., lunar module pilot of the first lunar landing mission, is beside the U.S. flag during an Apollo 11 moon walk. The Lunar Module (LM) is on the left, and the ...

The Apollo Moon landings are among the most dissected events in history, yet some of their strangest details still hide in the fine print. I have pulled together 10 insane Apollo Moon landing facts ...

Once America's most experienced astronaut, Apollo 13's Jim Lovell, who died at 97, was the first to visit the moon twice.

HOUSTON, Texas -- NASA is celebrating its 50th anniversary of the Moon Landing this Saturday, and they're taking a look back at that historic day in 1969. NASA's history office shared some very ...

While the crew of Apollo 9 was still orbiting Earth on this day in 1969, preparations were already underway on the ground for ...

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