"The people that lived and worked here, the room talks to them," Kranz said. Ahead of the 50th anniversary of the moon landing on July 20, NASA has restored the Apollo 11 mission control center to its ...
Neil Armstrong was appreciative, but as explained in his handwritten letter, it was too late. The Apollo 11 commander and his crewmates had already arrived at a design to represent the first moon ...
Recent photos taken by India’s Space Research Organization moon orbiter, known as Chandrayaan 2, clearly show the Apollo 11 and Apollo 12 landing sites more than 50 years later. The photos were taken ...
The Apollo 11 mission to the moon is one of the most intense stories of survival. The whole trip was nearly a disaster, and ...
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV) - July 16, 1969. Apollo 11, the first US lunar landing mission, is launched at 9:32 a.m. Easter Daylight Time. The Cosmosphere in Hutchinson, Kansas, houses artifacts from the ...
Apollo 11 fulfilled JFK’s promise to land a man on the Moon and return him safely—but the White House quietly prepared for ...
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 ...
Click to open image viewer. NASM-9A13960: Apollo 11 lunar landing mission astronauts Neil A. Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, Jr., and Michael Collins at a preflight press conference on July 5, 1969, Houston, ...
It was July 1969, and humankind’s much-anticipated trip to the surface of the moon was days away. The public, and the newspapers, couldn’t get enough of the three “moon men” of Apollo 11: Neil ...
Cat Inc., colloquially known as Caterpillar, is celebrating its 100th anniversary this year. While the brand is perhaps best known for its heavy machinery — dozers, backhoes, excavators, generators ...
"Thanks for all your effort," wrote the first moonwalker. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Neil Armstrong was appreciative, but as ...