Purdue University graduate and Apollo 11 flight commander Neil Armstrong became the first person to step foot on the moon on July 20, 1969. It was a truly giant leap for mankind, and a seminal moment ...

Gemini 8 was launched on March 16, 1966, and Armstrong performed the first successful docking of two vehicles in space. As spacecraft commander for Apollo 11, the first crewed lunar landing mission, ...

Just seven years later, commander Neil Armstrong ... expressed by President Richard Nixon as he spoke to the crew of Apollo 11 from the Oval Office of the White House. NASA/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY ...

At the moment the spacecraft landed, Apollo 11 commander Armstrong said: "Houston, Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed." A young girl looking at an exhibit at an anniversary event at the ...

T minus 25 seconds…20 seconds and counting…T minus 15 seconds…guidance is internal…12, 11, 10, 9…ignition sequence starts…6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 0…all engines running…lift-off, we have ...

But the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11 reminds us that this laughably ambitious goal has in fact already been proved doable--on a short deadline, at a time when computers were the size of rooms ...