Before departure, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin raised the American flag on the moon, an image that demonstrated American engineering prowess in the dynamic Space Race against the Soviet Union ...

The moon is mysteriously rusting, and there's a solid chance it isn't doing so with the Apollo 11 flag standing upright on its surface.That flag reportedly fell over at some point, with Aldrin and ...

On July 20, 1969 — 55 years ago Saturday — two NASA astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first Earthlings to set foot on the moon while an estimated 530 million people back ...

Neil Armstrong of Apollo 11 with Buzz Aldrin after planting a flag on the moon in July 1969. (Photo: NASA) “It is difficult to think of any other flag that's so heavily invested in meaning.

The same is possibly the case for the Apollo 15 flag, which was planted on the moon on July 26, 1971, by astronauts David R. Scott, James B. Irwin, and Alfred M. Worden.

Neil Armstrong had a pilot's license before a driver's license. As commander of Apollo 11, ... He and astronaut Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin placed the first U.S. flag on the moon.

Apollo 11's flag raising on the ancient lunar surface took all of 10 minutes during Neil Armstrong's and Buzz Aldrin's ...

In this photo provided by NASA, astronaut Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin poses for a photograph beside the U.S. flag deployed on the moon during the Apollo 11 mission on July 20, 1969. (Neil Armstrong/NASA ...

Since this is Neil Armstrong's story, ... A point of controversy for First Man was the apparent omission of the Apollo 11 ...

55 years ago today, Apollo 11's flag raising on the ancient lunar surface took all of 10 minutes during Neil Armstrong's and Buzz Aldrin's two-and-a-half hour moonwalking adventure in July 1969.