As the story noted, Armstrong – a civilian astronaut – had already been designated the commander for the Apollo 11 moon landing mission, with Aldrin the lunar module pilot and and Air Force Lt.

Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin poses for a snapshot while inside the Lunar Module in this July 1969 NASA image. Aldrin and astronaut Neil Armstrong were the first humans to land and walk on the ...

A Dec. 7 Facebook post (direct link, archive link) shows an image of a stealth bomber in flight and another image of the bulky Apollo 11 lunar module on the moon's surface. The bomber is labeled ...

A review of archives suggests that efforts to protect Earth from contamination by any organism brought back from the lunar surface were mostly for show. By Sarah Scoles When the astronauts of ...

The two spent the next few hours collecting samples, basking in the sunlight of the powdery landscape, and exploring the Sea of Tranquillity, Apollo 11's landing ... on the lunar module without ...

A piece of moon rock gifted to Ireland following NASA's historic Apollo 11 mission in 1969 was tragically ... Ireland had received a second piece of lunar material in 1973, also gifted by the ...