Aldrin is still planting flags 56 years after he did so on the moon, only now it is in a commercial asking "Can you text me ...

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The successful Apollo 11 mission delivered two American astronauts – Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin – to the lunar surface on July 20, 1969 (while Michael Collins famously remained in orbit).

It took Apollo 11 and its astronauts four days, six hours, and 45 minutes to reach the moon. The mission initially aimed to send a three-person crew to orbit the moon, rather than landing on the ...

Recent photos taken by India’s Space Research Organization moon orbiter, known as Chandrayaan 2, clearly show the Apollo 11 and Apollo 12 landing sites more than 50 years later. The photos were ...

Personnel within the Launch Control Center watch the Apollo 11 liftoff. The LCC is located 3.5 miles from the launch pad. The Saturn V rocket climbs into orbit.

She was on the team that specialized in trans-earth injection, the maneuvers that put the spacecraft on course to return to Earth from lunar orbit. During missions including Apollo 8, Apollo 11 ...

Provided all goes well with Apollo 10 and lunar orbit checkout of the lunar module’s radar and guidance systems, the Apollo 11 rocket and spacecraft will complete just under two months of pad ...

Early Apollo Missions: Earth Orbit Apollo missions flew unmanned until October 11, 1968, when Wally Schirra, Donn Eisele and Walt Cunningham orbited the earth for ten days in an Apollo command ...