July 16 this year marks the 57th anniversary of the historic Apollo 11 mission, which saw two men walk on the Moon.

What did the Apollo 11 astronauts eat on their historic journey to the moon? From freeze-dried chicken and rice to bacon ...

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On July 16, 1969 the daring mission began. On July 20, Apollo 11 put Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin on the Moon's surface ...

View of the interior of Apollo 11 Command Module "Columbia." It’s been nearly 50 years since the Apollo 11 team landed the lunar module, Eagle, in 1969. Now Pittsburgh can get close to a defining ...

Yet no human has been back to the lunar surface since the last Apollo astronaut left it in 1972, and plans to put people on ...

A broken engine switch threatened to leave the first Moon walkers trapped on the lunar surface until an ordinary pen became ...

Michael Collins—a two-time astronaut who piloted the command module during the historic Apollo 11 mission that landed the first humans on the Moon—died on Wednesday after battling cancer, his family ...

The Apollo 11 Eagle Lunar Module ascent stage was abandoned in lunar orbit after the historic landing in 1969. Its fate is unknown. Numerical analysis described here provides evidence that this object ...

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