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 ...

‘Houston,’ he says calmly, ‘Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed.’ Charlie Duke is Apollo 11’s capsule communicator at Mission Control – CAPCOM, for short. It’s his job to to ...

with the Eagle beginning its ascent back to the command module on July 21, 1969, before docking and rejoining Apollo 11. On July 22, 1969, Apollo 11 began its journey back to Earth, before safely ...

Neil Armstrong was appreciative, but it was too late. The Apollo 11 crew had a design for the first moon landing. Armstrong's ...

The first manned mission to the moon, Apollo 11, launched on July 16, 1969. The crew of NASA's Apollo 11 mission, from left, Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin, Michael Collins, and Neil Armstrong, pose with a ...

And it still seems like only yesterday my brother and I were glued to the TV in the wee hours of the morning, waiting with great anticipation for the two astronauts to descend out of the tiny moon ...

Apollo 11 saw Commander Neil Armstrong in the left seat, and Lunar Module Pilot Buzz Aldrin in the right seat. After piloting the lunar module Eagle down to the first-ever Moon landing ...

But the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11 reminds us that this laughably ambitious goal has in fact already been proved doable--on a short deadline, at a time when computers were the size of rooms ...