A detailed description of what the launch and landing of Apollo 11 were like for many of the 400,000 insiders who worked on the most famous space exploration mission in history.

Fifty years ago, the Apollo 11 mission took us farther from Earth than we had ever gone and, in doing so, brought us all closer, if only for the eight days, three hours, eighteen minutes and ...

When the Apollo 11 space craft blasted off to the moon 50 years ago this month, one black woman watched from manufacturing facility that worked on the spacecraft. Her name is Mary Matilda Factory.

Apollo 11, up to a point, will retrace the moon-voyaging route of Apollo 8 and 10: the Saturn V launch into earth orbit, scheduled for July 16; ... As the craft turns upright, ...

During Apollo 11, Armstrong partially manually guided the landing craft to the surface. Once on ground, he became the first human to ever set foot on the Moon. He died in 2012, the first of the ...

A flight manual from the Apollo 11 lunar module could fetch up to $9 million when it goes on sale next week as part of an auction marking the moon landing’s 50th anniversary.. The letter-sized ...

When NASA’s Apollo 11 craft landed on the Moon 50 years ago on Sunday 20 July 1969 at 20:18 (UTC), it was not just a significant moment in the history of science and technology. Those famous footsteps ...

Apollo 11 Command Module "Columbia," 1969. On July 20, 1969, ... Module contained the main spacecraft propulsion system and consumables while the Lunar Module was the two-person craft used by ...

But although Luna 15 arrived in lunar orbit two days ahead of Apollo 11, the Soviet craft’s altimeter “showed wildly varying readings for the projected landing area,” as Fishman notes.

The command module, christened Columbia, is the craft that carried Apollo 11’s astronauts – commander Neil Armstrong, lunar module pilot Buzz Aldrin and command module pilot Mike Collins ...

For almost 40 years, the Apollo 11 command module has rested behind a plastic shield in the National Air and Space Museum. Now visitors may not have to journey to Washington, D.C., to see inside ...

A flight manual from the Apollo 11 lunar module could fetch up to $9 million when it goes on sale next week as part of an auction marking the moon landing’s 50th anniversary.. The letter-sized ...