Gemini III lifted off from Cape Kennedy, Florida, carrying astronauts Virgil “Gus” Grissom and John Young on America’s first ...

With the birth of space activities, the Moon became the ultimate destination of countless missions, including crewed flights that brought the first human footprints to another place in the universe.

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The first manned mission to the moon, Apollo 11, launched on July 16, 1969. The crew of NASA's Apollo 11 mission, from left, Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin, Michael Collins, and Neil Armstrong, pose with a ...

Humanity is now the dominant force influencing the ... the "first man-made object to disturb the lunar surface", said The Times's science reporter Kaya Burgess. And experts fear that humans ...