The historic Apollo 11 lunar landing on July 20, 1969, was far from a given. Mission Control’s Steve Bales recounts the tense final moments that led to man’s first step.

BREVARD COUNTY • KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLORIDA – On July 16, 1969 at 9:32 a.m. Eastern Time, the Apollo 11 crew of Armstrong, Aldrin, and Collins launched toward the Moon. The astronauts were not the ...

NASA astronauts Buzz Aldrin, Neil Armstrong and Michael Collins blasted off on their famous mission to land and walk on the ...

Neil Armstrong, the first man on the moon, was a private person. Therefore, when he spoke, it commanded attention. Here he ...

The mission was also Tom Stafford's last spaceflight. The Apollo Command Module Pilot, Vance Brand, would go on to fly on ...

The curious minds at Aperture revisit the dramatic moments and hidden challenges of Apollo 11's historic moon landing.

Man on the moon 50 years later: Luna 15 The space race was still going on between the U.S. and the Soviet Union even as Apollo 11 astronauts were on the lunar surface.

The US Air Force has only given a handful the opportunity to take a look inside the cockpit. PBS SoCal Whiteman Air Force Base — the home of the B-2 fleet — is also where all seven bombers ...