I knew I was alone,” he observed later, “in a way that no earthling has ever been before.” That quote is immortalized on a ...

After traveling 240,000 miles in 76 hours, Apollo 11 entered in a lunar orbit. The next day, the lunar module Eagle, with Armstrong and Aldrin inside, separated from the command module where ...

Neil A. Armstrong, commander for the Apollo 11 Moon-landing mission, practices for the historic event in a lunar module simulator in the Flight Crew Training Building at Kennedy.

Almost 54 years ago, Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin took the Lunar Module Eagle and landed on the Moon. After less than a day on the surface of our natural satellite, they ...

Recent photos taken by India’s Space Research Organization moon orbiter, known as Chandrayaan 2, clearly show the Apollo 11 and Apollo 12 landing sites more than 50 years later.

(CNN) — Here’s a look at the first moon landing on July 20, 1969. The moon landing was watched by an estimated 600 million people around the world. July 20, 1969 - [4:17 p.m. EDT] Apollo 11 becomes ...

On July 21, 1969, U.S. astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin, lifted off from the moon in the Apollo 11 lunar module Eagle.

We explore the dramatic story of NASA's Apollo Program, beginning with President Kennedy's ambitious deadline for a lunar landing in response to Soviet success with Sputnik and cosmonaut Yuri ...

Fifty-three years ago this week, America launched Apollo 11, a mission that reached a pinnacle of scientific and national achievement with the successful landing of the Lunar Module Eagle on the Moon.

The Apollo 11 spacecraft consisted of the command module, Columbia, and the lunar module, Eagle. The crew traveled 240,000 miles from the Earth to the moon in 76 hours.

The Apollo 11 spacecraft consisted of the command module, Columbia, and the lunar module, Eagle. The crew traveled 240,000 miles from the Earth to the moon in 76 hours.