"Thanks for all your effort," wrote the first moonwalker. Neil Armstrong was appreciative, but as explained in his ...

Neil A. Armstrong ... Gemini 8 was launched on March 16, 1966, and Armstrong performed the first successful docking of two vehicles in space. As spacecraft commander for Apollo 11, the first crewed ...

Iconic photograph of the Earth captured by the crew of the Apollo 11 mission as it begins its translunar transit. A superb African continent, the cradle of Humanity, winks at these first space ...

Apollo 11. 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 ...

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50 years after the historic Apollo 11 mission that landed the first humans on the moon, the Smithsonian celebrates by releasing the results of a multi-year conservation effort of Neil Armstrong’s ...

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This week marks the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission, which first landed American astronauts on the moon's surface. Of the intrepid crew, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin have tended to ...

Neil Armstrong was appreciative, but as explained in his handwritten letter, it was too late. The Apollo 11 commander and his crewmates had already arrived at a design to represent the first moon ...