What Happened to the Apollo 11 Landing Site After 56 Years? In the absolute silence of the Moon, humanity left some of the loudest marks in history: footprints in the regolith, a laser reflector still ...

July 24 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1679, New Hampshire became a royal colony of the British crown. In 1847, after 17 months and many miles of travel, Brigham Young led 148 Mormon pioneers ...

Legendary astronaut Edwin Eugene "Buzz" Aldrin Jr. shared a heartfelt message on the 56th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission, recalling the historic moment when the lunar module Eagle landed at ...

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (KCRG) - Fifty-six years ago this week, astronaut Neil Armstrong coined one of the most famous lines in American history when he became the first person to walk on the moon. But you ...

Steve Bales isn’t a known name like astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin. But his critical ‘go’ decision during the Apollo 11 moon landing made a big difference in the history of the Cold War.

Apollo 11 Commander Neil Armstrong demonstrates the erection of the lunar surface deployable S-band antenna as lunar module pilot Edwin E. Aldrin works with lunar sampling equipment. For the full ...

A piece of moon rock gifted to Ireland following NASA's historic Apollo 11 mission in 1969 was tragically destroyed in a fire, newly uncovered documents from Ireland's National Archives reveal. The ...

The Apollo 11 astronauts used advanced technology to land on the Moon. The Saturn V rocket was the largest rocket ever at that point — although SpaceX's Starship topped it when it took flight in 2024.

Poet Vivian Ayers Allen was honored for her literary contributions that helped promote space exploration. In a July 19 ceremony, NASA renamed the Johnson Space Center the “Dorothy Vaughan Center in ...

The cosmos is providing a full moon for the 55th anniversary of the first lunar landing this weekend, and plenty of other events honor Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin's giant leap. Aldrin, 94, the last ...

Command module pilot Michael Collins took this iconic Apollo 11 photo 55 years ago today, after his historic trip around the far side of the moon made him "the world's loneliest man". When you ...