UPDATE, 9:14 p.m.: One of two Purdue Centennial flags Neil Armstrong took with him on the Apollo 11 mission to the moon in July 1969 sold for $42,000 as part of an auction of the Purdue alum's ...

The upcoming Neil Armstrong biopic "First Man" omits the American flag being planted on the moon. Star Ryan Gosling defended the decision and said Armstrong's mission to the moon was "widely ...

This July 20, 1969, NASA photo taken by Neil A. Armstrong shows Buzz Aldrin posing beside the U.S. flag the astronauts planted on the moon during the Apollo 11 mission. (NEIL A. ARMSTRONG/AP ...

“First Man,” the Neil Armstrong biopic which tells the tale of the moon landing, has stolen the show at several international film festivals, but fails to include an American flag scene.

On July 20, 1969 — 55 years ago Saturday — two NASA astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first Earthlings to set foot on the moon while an estimated 530 million people back ...

It was 1969 when Neil Armstrong and the Apollo 11 crew made history by becoming the first people to ever land on the moon. While the mission in itself was an iconic moment for mankind, the space ...

Neil Armstrong’s sons—Rick (61) and Mark (55)—have chosen Dallas-based Heritage Auctions to auction off about 3,000 of their father’s belongings. Armstrong died in Cincinnati in 2012, but ...

The flag was carried by Mark's father, Neil Armstrong, to the surface of the moon on Apollo 11, the first moon landing mission, in July 1969. (Image credit: collectSPACE.com) ...

Astronauts Neil Armstrong and Aldrin were more than 110 hours into the historic moon landing mission when they planted a US flag. Video of the event was broadcast to millions on Earth. Aldrin ...

In First Man, a biopic about Neil Armstrong and the U.S. space program, the film doesn’t show Armstrong planting the American flag on the moon. “This is total lunacy.

"First Man," which premiered at the Venice Film Festival on Wednesday and is scheduled to hit theaters in October, chronicles Armstrong's life from 1961 to the Moon landing in 1969.