Aldrin, however, had quite a different post-flight experience. As detailed in historian Andrew Chaikin's book, A Man on the ...

Everyone knows the name of the first man on the moon, but what about the last? Eugene Cernan left the final bootprint that may ever appear on the surface of our dusty satellite. Yet Cernan has ...

On July 20th, 1969, humans first set foot on the moon. On this 50th anniversary of Apollo 11, we celebrate the giant leap that Neil Armstrong helped to make with his one small step. Do you ...

Neil A. Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon, was born Aug. 5, 1930 in Wapakoneta, Ohio. In 1947, Armstrong enrolled at Purdue University on a Navy scholarship to pursue a degree in ...

An Apollo 16 astronaut has revealed why a family portrait has been sitting on the moon for over half a century ...

Although some opposed the tremendous outlay of taxpayer dollers to put a man on the moon, most Americans united in support of NASA's work against a common threat: Soviet domination of space.