Buzz Aldrin (lunar module pilot), and Michael Collins (command module pilot). The first Moon mission will be called Apollo 11. Its three-person crew is Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Mike Collins.

When Apollo 11 landed astronauts on the Moon in July 1969, a Soviet spacecraft called Luna 15 was already orbiting nearby, attempting to collect lunar soil and return it to Earth before NASA's crew.

To overcome the Earth’s orbital gravity, NASA required a rocket 100 times more powerful than the Mercury boosters that launched the first American astronaut into orbit in 1961. The three-stage Saturn ...

A Jan. 25 Facebook post (direct link, archive link) shows an image of the front page of The Washington Post announcing that the Apollo 11 mission had successfully landed on the moon. The Post's story, ...

On July 24, the country celebrates the successful conclusion of the Apollo 11 lunar mission; perhaps the most significant technological triumph in American history. You don’t need to be a senior ...

Air Force Air Force Veteran Roger Beiswenger, who worked on recovering Apollo 11, saw Apollo 11 again decades later at the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C. during the Honor flight.

A photographer who was “rummaging” through the NASA archives stumbled across an amazing earthrise timelapse taken by the crew of Apollo 11 and then dubbed the audio of Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and ...

The Apollo program was the first to bring humans to the moon. Even though the program began in the early 1960s until 1972, with 12 astronauts walking the moon's surface during this time frame, there ...

This video combines actual Mission Control audio with a 1969 ABC News simulation to show how the Apollo 11 moon landing unfolded. A half-century ago, in the middle of a mean year of war, famine, ...

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All the major chapters in the American story, from Indigenous beginnings to the present day. Yet just a few years later, some people claimed the “giant leap for mankind” had been faked. Conspiracy ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The broken circuit breaker switch that nearly ended Apollo 11 (below) and the pen that saved the crew and the mission. Several ...