Upon taking a "small step" onto the surface of the moon in 1969, Neil Armstrong uttered what would become one of history's most famous one-liners. But strangely, what he actually said is far from ...

Sanders Lamont was Aerospace Writer for TODAY and the Gannett News Service during the 1960s and early 1970s. He covered the 1967 Apollo 1 tragedy, the moon landing, the dramatic Apollo 13 mission and ...

Fifty years ago this month, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first two human beings on the moon. Here's everything you need to know. Why did we go to the moon? On May 25, 1961, President John ...

In 1961, President John F. Kennedy set a goal for the United States to go to the moon. Eight years later, at 9:32 a.m. July 16, 1969, Apollo 11 launched from Cape Kennedy with Commander Neil Armstrong ...