On July 20, 1969, the United States achieved the most profound milestone of human accomplishment when it landed NASA astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin on the Moon, while their command module pilot Michael Collins orbited above. […]
In celebration of the 50th anniversary of the first moon landing on July 20, 1969, the U.S. Postal Service is pleased to reveal two stamp designs commemorating that historic milestone. Additional details are coming about the date, time and location for the first-day-of issue ceremony. […]
Fifty years after the historic Apollo 11 mission that landed the first humans on the moon, the Smithsonian is celebrating by releasing the results of a multi-year conservation effort of Neil Armstrong’s spacesuit. […]
The Saturn V rocket that would launch Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Mike Collins to the Moon rolled out of NASA’s Kennedy Space Center’s Vehicle Assembly Building today in 1969. […]
The first steps on the Moon – fueled by a national will to excel – marked a turning point for America and humanity as a whole. At the core of that historic moment, however, lay the story of one man whose strength, perseverance and personal conviction brought him to the moment his foot would leave the indelible and iconic imprint on the lunar surface. […]
‘Houston, Tranquility Base Here. The Eagle Has Landed.’ […]
In early 1966, Gemini VIII chalked up another crucial spaceflight technology milestone for the United States. […]
Rep. Bill Posey’s bill commemorates the Apollo 11 mission […]
Although famous for being the first person to set foot on the Moon, Neil Armstrong thought of himself primarily as a research pilot. Being a research pilot was a very demanding and frequently dangerous career, and in 1962, Armstrong almost had a bad day as a NASA research pilot. […]
On March 16, 1966, command pilot Neil Armstrong and pilot David Scott successfully docked their Gemini VIII spacecraft with the Agena target vehicle, the first-ever linking of two spacecraft together in Earth orbit.
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On this day 47 years ago, as President Lyndon Johnson presented NASA Distinguished Service Medals to the Apollo 8 crew he said the following.
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Jay Barbree, who for more than 50 years has documented the space program from Brevard County as NBC’s space correspondent, will speak about the topic he knows best – and one of the giants in the field, Neil Armstrong – during a dinner and lecture starting at 6 p.m. Aug. 22 in the Hartley Room on the campus of Florida Institute of Technology. […]
