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, ...
Apollo 11’s “live” moon landing was seen by the world, but the highest-quality original signal was recorded on rare telemetry tapes that later vanished inside NASA’s archives. Decades later, a long ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
July 20th is Moon Day, Space Exploration Day and the anniversary of the first Apollo 11 moonwalk. Here’s a look at the Apollo program and the new Artemis program to return to the lunar surface.
Steven A. Hauck II, professor and chair of the Department of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences, will participate in a panel discussion at an event held in honor of the 50th anniversary of ...
On Apollo 11's anniversary, Obama thanks astronauts for courage and inspiration. July 20, 2009 — -- On the 40th anniversary of the first moon landing, President Obama thanked the Apollo 11 crew ...