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(WHTM) — After the first successful manned landing on the Moon on July 20, 1969, the first walk on the Moon, and the first manned departure from the Moon, Astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin “Buzz” ...

"Columbia" is once again bound for the District of Columbia. The spacecraft, which half a century ago flew on the first mission to land humans on the moon, is returning to its home at the National Air ...

The Apollo 11 Lunar Module ascent stage, with astronauts Neil A. Armstrong and Edwin E. Aldrin, Jr. aboard, is photographed from the Command and Service Modules in lunar orbit. On July 21, 1969, U.S.

Michael Collins, the Apollo 11 astronaut dubbed “the loneliest man in history” for his role piloting the orbiting command module during the first Moon-landing Apollo mission, died on April 28 at the ...

With just days until the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing, NASA is looking back at how the mission altered the course of space exploration, while looking ahead toward upcoming plans to ...

On July 16 th 1969 Apollo 11 launched from the Kennedy Space Center with astronauts, Neil Armstrong Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins. Shortly after the men were in earth's orbit going around 1.5 times ...

On July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong became the first human to set foot on the Earth’s moon. On July 16, 1969, Armstrong, Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin and Michael Collins were launched from Cape Kennedy atop a ...