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.

It was July 1969, and humankind’s much-anticipated trip to the surface of the moon was days away. The public, and the ...

Apollo 11's Source Code Has Tons of Easter Eggs, Including an Ignition File Titled 'Burn Baby Burn' There are jokes, Shakespeare quotes and a reference to the Black Power movement.

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

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.

In the new documentary “Apollo 11,” director Todd Douglas Miller uses rarely-seen archival footage to make the lunar mission feel vivid, tense, and recent.

"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 ...

On the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing, there are many stories almost lost to history. Neil Armstrong's historic "one small step," for instance, was almost assigned to fellow ...

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 ...

Apollo 11, the mission, will mark its 50th anniversary from July 16 through July 24, 2019. The film, "Apollo 11," bills itself as "50 years in the making." ...

The Apollo 11 lunar module shows the stainless steel dedication plaque. The signatures are of the three Apollo 11 crew members and President Richard Nixon. Photo by NASA ...

Apollo 11 wasn't the only moon-bound spacecraft to experience totality. The crew of Apollo 12 (Pete Conrad, Alan Bean, and Dick Gordon) also did so, on November 24, 1969, and got a far better ...