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'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.

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.

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

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." ...

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 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.

"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 ...

The Apollo 11 lunar module Eagle touched down at Tranquility Base on the Moon. A few hours later, Neil Armstrong and I stepped foot on the Moon, with Michael Collins orbiting close-by," Aldrin ...

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 ...

Aldrin — who is now the last surviving Apollo 11 member — posted a picture of himself, Collins and Armstrong (who died in 2012), to Twitter, along with a heartfelt message to his friend.

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 ...