This extremely delicate maneuver would be performed by mission commander Neil Armstrong, who — like his co-pilot, David Scott — would be making his first trip into space. At first, everything ...

The 'forgotten astronaut' of the 1969 moon landing shared the bizarre way they were treated upon returning to Earth following ...

Astronauts always eat steak and eggs before they venture into space on rocket ships. But why has that become NASA's ...

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Neil A. Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon ... Gemini 8 was launched on March 16, 1966, and Armstrong performed the first successful docking of two vehicles in space. As spacecraft commander ...

The Soviet Union put the first person into space ... of steak and eggs, Neil Armstrong and his crew mates, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins, blasted off on their mission to land on the Moon.

Twenty years before Neil Armstrong uttered his memorable words on the Moon about one small step for man but a giant leap for mankind, Wernher von Braun presented an ambitious plan for manned ...

In July 1969, four faculty members traveled from College Park to Kennedy Space Center in Florida ... Buzz Aldrin would be following mission commander Neil Armstrong onto the moon's surface to ...

Even if the flags have remained standing when crews rocketed off the moon, it is almost certain that they are not in the same condition as when they were first deployed on the lunar surface.

Janet Shearon married Neil Armstrong. Joan Archer became the ... This wasn’t Buzz’s first mission into space. In 1966, rookie Buzz had been on the Gemini 12 mission to space with the aim ...

Before Neil Armstrong took his "giant leap for mankind," NASA staged a series of missions that paved the way for his team's ...