Still he flew this ship well and he flew it with care and he left behind some words that show that. “Spacecraft 107, alias ‘Apollo 11’ alias ‘Columbia,” he wrote on a panel in the ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The new documentary "Apollo 11," out in theaters today (March 8), pulls viewers into the ...

There wasn’t much glamour in an Apollo command module. The ship was little more than an 11-ft (3.3 m) tall conical capsule that served as home to a trio of astronauts for most of their trip to ...

Apollo 11, the first moon landing mission in July 1969, produced a number of iconic quotes, such as, "The Eagle has landed," and "That's one small step for (a) man, one giant leap for mankind." ...

Beginning on July 16, 1969, just hours before Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins board the Saturn V rocket, the film captures every phase of the mission in stunning detail, with footage ...

The first man on the moon declared, "That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.” Here's who he was, plus 11 more who walked the moon.

The aircraft carrier USS Hornet docked in Alameda. The Hornet was the only ship to serve in World War II, the Cold War, Vietnam and the Space Race. (Lindsey Moore/KQED) “The world generally thought ...

Look inside the Apollo 11 space capsule that went to the moon and back. On July 20, Armstrong and Aldrin reached the moon in a landing module that had detached from the command module, where ...

THE moon. In Gaelic, Lochran aigh nam bochd: the lamp of the poor. This “plate of grey steel spattered by a million bullets” came to light up our entire planet on July 20, 1969 when Neil ...

Apollo 11 moon landing was 55 years ago today. ... who was the voice inside Mission Control for the July 20, ... with a splashdown party planned aboard the ship on Saturday.

Teams lift the first stage of the Apollo 10 Saturn V rocket by crane inside High Bay 3 of the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Dec. 3, 1968, in preparation ...

As the Apollo 11 astronauts hurtled toward their historic rendezvous with the moon 47 years ago this week, they kept a hand-drawn calendar on the wall of their command module, crossing off the days… ...