The U.S. Mint prepared special coins for the celebration ... Armstrong's training journey to become the first man on the moon. And a new documentary about Apollo 11, directed by Todd Douglas ...

It’s been 50 years since humanity’s first trip to the moon. The nation stopped and watched on July 20, 1969, as Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin took their first steps on ...

He was 90. "As pilot of the Apollo 11 command module – some called (Collins) ‘the loneliest man in history’ – while his colleagues walked on the Moon for the first time, he helped our ...

Edwin [“Buzz”] Aldrin, 38, would be the first man to step out of the lunar module, a small spaceship scheduled to ferry two men from the orbiting Apollo 11 spaceship to the moon and back this ...

The United States Mint will recognize the 50th anniversary of the historic first moon landing in 2019 by striking domed coins bearing an iconic image from the Apollo 11 mission. The Senate late on ...

A Pella man has been recognized ... for proposing the mints issue the coins in honor of the 50th anniversary of the moon landing after the Apollo 11 mission launched July 16, 1969, landed ...

It’s been 50 years since U.S. astronauts first ... moon “an act of faith and vision,” Apollo 11 ultimately appeals to the human instinct to be bold. As Kennedy said in his speech, if man ...

Surely this entire approach is the very antithesis of adventure?” In the first New Scientist edition after the Apollo 11 moon landing our leader article on 24 July 1969 was mostly worried that ...

This story is part of To the Moon, a series exploring ... a third remained in the CM. First of all, they simply proved it could be done. The overview: Apollo 11 lifted off from Launch Pad ...

The "First Man" rarely gave interviews ... Neil Armstrong was publicly named as commander of the three-man spaceship bound for the moon: Apollo 11. The famously modest Armstrong insisted he ...

What happens in the world of music when you mix the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 voyage to the moon ... when the first man walked on the moon. (Perhaps the astronauts were tired of the ...