Find the locations of the five landing zones considered as the setting for humanity's first steps on another world.

The Apollo 11 crew was the first to land on the moon. (Bettmann/Contributor) Although these two particular missions are widely remembered, the entire program was a historical one.

Apollo 11 Moon landing: A brief timeline from 1961 to 1969 Apollo 11 landed on the Moon on July 20, 1969. Here is a brief timeline of events that lead to the historic moment, from President ...

NASA The moon program got off the ground with the successful launch of Apollo 7 on Oct. 11, 1968, a shakedown cruise for the redesigned post-fire Apollo command module in low-Earth orbit.

"Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed." It is July 20, 1969. Mission Control at NASA's Houston headquarters joins the watching world in a collective sigh of relief. American astronauts Neil ...

Apollo 11 astronaut Michael Collins has died at 90 Michael Collins, who stayed aboard the Apollo 11 while his colleagues walked on the moon, died Wednesday after a battle with cancer. He was 90.

The Apollo 11 astronauts immediately went into quarantine aboard the Hornet and, along with 48 pounds (22 kilograms) of moon rocks and soil, remained off-limits for weeks as they were moved to ...

On this July 16, 1969, people watch the Apollo 11 Saturn V rocket launch on multiple TV's at a Sears department store in White Plains, N.Y. (Ron Frehm/AP) That sense of unity did not last long.

It’s been 50 years since the groundbreaking moment the crew of the Apollo 11 mission landed a man on the moon for the first time. Now, a new six-hour documentary airing on PBS’ “American ...

The Apollo 11 astronauts’ very return to Earth also put the planet at risk. Their vehicle, for instance, was designed to vent itself on the way down, and the astronauts were to open their hatch ...

Amelia Gillespie, 9, of Arnold, Md., greets Apollo 11 mission director Eugene Kranz before a congessional hearing in Washington this year.

Apollo 11 set down in the Sea of Tranquility close to the Ritter and Sabine lunar craters. (Image credit: Photo (left) by Lorenzo Di Cola/NurPhoto via Getty Images.