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Find the locations of the five landing zones considered as the setting for humanity's first steps on another world.
Neil Armstrong, the first man on the moon, was a private person. Therefore, when he spoke, it commanded attention. Here he ...
Apollo 11 showed us, just when we needed it, the best of humanity. Now, when our planet is facing similar strife, we could really use another moon shot, whether we go back to the moon or not.
Apollo 10 got within nine miles of the moon's surface. The crew took pictures and gathered information about the landing sites for Apollo 11. This mission began on May 18, 1969 and ended on May 26 ...
Apollo 11 launched from Kennedy Space Center 50 years ago this morning, the start of an eight-day, 953,000-mile journey which would take the first humans to the surface of the moon and return them ...
Apollo 11 astronaut Michael Collins has died NASA astronaut Michael Collins, who flew to the moon on the historic Apollo 11 mission with Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin, has died at the age of 90.
The Apollo 11 astronauts couldn't get life insurance they could afford. So, they signed a bunch of postcards. A friend took them to the post office and had them all postmarked with key dates, ...
Mr. Collins is often the forgotten astronaut on Apollo 11, the one who remained in orbit, 60 miles above the moon in the Apollo command module, waiting for his crewmates, Neil Armstrong and Buzz ...
NASA astronauts Buzz Aldrin, Neil Armstrong and Michael Collins blasted off on their famous mission to land and walk on the ...