Apollo 14 After Apollo 13's near-disaster and aborted Moon landing, Apollo 14 (1971) saw America's first astronaut, Alan Shepard, as the commander with Ed Mitchell as lunar module pilot. Shepard ...

Half a century ago, on July 16, 1969, the Apollo 11 astronauts took off for the moon. Neil Armstrong, Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin, and Michael Collins arrived four days later to a place no human being had ...

On the 20 July 1969, he became the first person to walk on the Moon. When Neil returned, he retired from being an astronaut, but he never stopped being interested in flying. He later became a ...