"Thanks for all your effort," wrote the first moonwalker. Neil Armstrong was appreciative, but as explained in his ...

Purdue University graduate and Apollo 11 flight commander Neil Armstrong became the first person to step foot on the moon on July 20, 1969. It was a truly giant leap for mankind, and a seminal moment ...

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 ...

Gemini 8 was launched on March 16, 1966, and Armstrong performed the first successful docking of two vehicles in space. As spacecraft commander for Apollo 11, the first crewed lunar landing mission, ...

Where the astronauts sat in the Apollo Lunar Module may have profoundly impacted the way the experience of walking on the ...

Assassinated in 1963, he’ll never know if America made it. Introducing the Apollo 11 Crew: Neil Armstrong (commander), Buzz Aldrin (lunar module pilot), and Michael Collins (command module pilot).

The 'forgotten astronaut' of the 1969 moon landing shared the bizarre way they were treated upon returning to Earth following ...

McDivitt was also the commander of 1965’s Gemini 4 mission ... s program manager for five Apollo missions after the Apollo 11 moon landing. McDivitt died Thursday in Tucson, Arizona, NASA ...