Buzz Aldrin, Neil Armstrong, and Michael Collins were quarantined for three weeks because NASA was afraid of dangerous germs from the moon.

Tranquility Base, the Apollo 11 mission's Eagle lunar lander touchdown site as seen in July 1969. Apollo 12 lunar module pilot Alan Bean steps down to moon's surface during his 1969 flight. After ...

On December 24, 1968, Apollo 8 became the first crewed mission to orbit the Moon. This article looks back at the historic flight that changed space exploration forever.

On September 22, 2011, just a year prior to his death, Neil Armstrong gave a rare public account of his final few thousand feet of descent to the surface of the moon on July 20, 1969, in the Lunar ...

The first moon landing will be displayed on screens nearby. Houston, we have a celebration. To honor the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing, the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum ...

Today is Moon Day, Space Exploration Day and the anniversary of the first Apollo 11 moonwalk. Here’s a look at the Apollo program and the new Artemis program to return to the lunar surface. Screenshot ...

Part One: On Talking about Apollo -- 1. "The Message of the Spirit of Apollo": Commonplace Reactions -- 2. The Nihilism of the WASPs: Norman Mailer in NASA-Land -- Part Two: On Mastering the Universe ...

A supercomputer simulation of the Apollo 12 landing on the moon was created to "improve its understanding of plume-surface ...