CINCINNATI (AP) — Neil Armstrong was a quiet self-described nerdy engineer who became a global hero when as a steely-nerved pilot he made "one giant leap for mankind" with a small step on to the moon.
Taken by Buzz Aldrin, the second person to walk on the moon, the Armstrong photo shows the famed astronaut standing beside the Lunar Module Eagle, which is what took the crew into space on the Apollo ...
Sad news for NASA and its Houston family, as word has come down that the first man on our moon has died today. Armstrong was 82. Breaking News and NBC News reported the news over Twitter around 2 p.m.
At the start of a talk at the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference in Houston in March, Harrison Schmitt, one of the two astronauts who walked on the moon during Apollo 17, the last lunar mission, ...
Letters selected from Purdue University Archives and Special Collections' larger Barron Hilton Flight and Space Exploration Archives, established in 2011 "In the years between the historic first moon ...
An 18-karat gold version of the first watch worn on the moon has set a record for the most paid for an astronaut's timepiece. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...
The year was 1969 when the Apollo 11 mission buzzed the lunar surface and humans stepped out on the silent world of the Moon. However, Apollo 11 was not the first to arrive on the scene. Long before ...
"There are places to go beyond belief," he said. Aug. 26, 2012 — -- Neil Armstrong, the Apollo 11 astronaut who died Saturday at 82, said he did not want to live his life as an icon, remembered ...
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