But what I was seeing on my family’s small-screen, black-and-white television were live pictures of Neil Armstrong preparing to step onto the lunar surface from the Apollo 11 lunar module (LM ...

If it wasn’t for the lunar module, we wouldn’t have heard the famous words from Neil Armstrong, on July 20th of 1969.

The Apollo 11 lunar module traveled through space after being propelled toward the moon by a powerful rocket. Astronauts made the journey in a different, attached module − called the command module.

I knew I was alone,” he observed later, “in a way that no earthling has ever been before.” That quote is immortalized on a ...

Revisiting the heart-stopping moments before Apollo 11 landed on the moon with the world watching There were tears and cheers as Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong took their steps.

Who was on the Apollo 11 mission? The three crew members of the Apollo 11 mission were Commander Neil Armstrong, Command Module Pilot Michael Collins, and Lunar Module Pilot Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin.

Buzz Aldrin through the years 1969: Astronaut Buzz Aldrin, lunar module pilot, stands beside an American flag placed on the moon during Apollo 11 extravehicular activity.

The three-person Apollo 11 crew was made up of Navy aviators and an Air Force pilot. They became the first mission to land on the Moon.

On July 21, 1969, U.S. astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin, lifted off from the moon in the Apollo 11 lunar module Eagle.

Astronaut Buzz Aldrin, lunar module pilot, walks on the surface of the moon during the Apollo 11 extravehicular activity (NASA).

Commander Armstrong, Command Module Pilot Michael Collins, and Lunar Module Pilot Aldrin, pose at the Kennedy Space Center prior to Apollo 11’s launch.