Formerly called the FG-58, the Original Pilot by American Optical has the distinct honor of being the pair of sunglasses worn by the entire Apollo 11 crew during their 1969 missio ...

As 'Apollo 13' turns 30, we talk to legendary NASA flight director Gerry Griffin who helped make the film as realistic as ...

A study by the University of Technology Sydney published last month found that moon dust was far less toxic to our pulmonary ...

Apollo 11 Eagle Ascending, 1969 Vintage chromogenic print (c-print) 11 x 14 in. (27.94 x 35.56 cm.) A Kodak Paper watermark AS11-44-6643 ...

And you can explore all things Apollo 11 on a special website by the Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Space Museum. If nothing else, soak in the full moon Saturday night into Sunday morning.

In May 1969, just two months before Apollo 11, Apollo 10 flew to lunar orbit in a test run of the systems used in the successful lunar landing. The Apollo 11 crew returned to Earth on July 24, 1969.

Aldrin, 94, the last surviving member of the Apollo 11 crew, headlines a gala at the San Diego Air and Space Museum on Saturday night.

"Houston, Tranquility Base here, the Eagle has landed." "That's one small step for [a] man, one giant leap for mankind." "Magnificent desolation." Three phrases that recall humanity's first landing on ...

Apollo 11 took off for the moon this week in 1969. To prepare the astronauts, Nasa put them through gruelling, relentless simulations – and BBC Tomorrow's World paid a visit.

On July 16, 1969, Apollo 11 launched from Cape Kennedy in Florida with astronauts Buzz Aldrin, Michael Collins and Neil Armstrong aboard. On July 20, the Lunar Module, Eagle, landed in the Sea of ...

You can see the bits flying off." The crew, as you know, made it back to Earth, where an investigation into the incident took place. NASA found that Apollo 8 and Apollo 10 had had the same problem.

The Apollo 11 spaceflight jacket worn by Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin, the second man to walk on the moon in 1969 with Neil Armstrong, exceeded expectations when it sold for an astonishing $2.8 million on ...