The crew of Apollo 9 spent ten days orbiting Earth and completed the first manned flight of the lunar module – the section of the Apollo rocket that would later land Neil Armstrong on the Moon.

The clothing in question: the spacesuit Neil Armstrong wore when he stepped ... of the scrape by a sample shovel or a snag on the lunar module ladder during those two and a half hours Armstrong ...

All but one of the lunar module pilots, in contrast, underwent deep and lasting personal transformations (some of which were profoundly unpleasant) after their Moon missions. Apollo 11 saw Commander ...

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

On July 20, 1969, astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed in the Lunar Module Eagle and became the first humans to step foot on the lunar surface while astronaut Michael Collins orbited above ...

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On July 21st, 1969, American astronaut Neil Armstrong changed the world when he and Lunar Module Pilot Buzz Aldrin landed on ...

The flight’s lunar module, Eagle, landed on the surface of the moon just hours before. Neil Armstrong and Edwin “Buzz Aldrin” both remained inside the lunar module waiting for the order for ...

The men on the moon are back inside their module, Eagle, recovering from their exertions on the surface. The module is not due to lift off for nearly 6 hours. A report now from Peter Watson in our ...

Introducing the Apollo 11 Crew: Neil Armstrong (commander), Buzz Aldrin (lunar module pilot), and Michael Collins (command module pilot). The first Moon mission will be called Apollo 11.

The United States returned to the moon this week when a privately-built spacecraft named Odysseus landed near the lunar ... deal than when Neil Armstrong stepped off the Apollo module.