Gemini 8 was launched on March 16, 1966, and Armstrong performed the first successful docking of two vehicles in space. As spacecraft commander for Apollo 11, the first crewed lunar landing mission, ...

One small step for man, one giant leap in viewing figures for Japan. On July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong becomes the first ...

On 20 July 1969, Neil Armstrong became the first man to walk on the Moon ... Neil Armstrong became the first person to step on to the surface of the Moon. He was followed 20 minutes later by ...

Neil Armstrong thought he had a 50–50 shot at pulling it off. "There are so many unknowns," the first man to set foot on the moon said in a 2011 interview with an Australian accounting firm.

His first image from the surface of the moon is expected to go for US$7,600 - $11,000 (£5,800 - £8,500 / AU$12,000 - $17,500) ...

The Lunar Module (LM) Eagle touched down on the moon's surface just before 21.18 BST (20.18 GMT) on 20 July 1969.Some six and a half hours later, at 03.56 BST (02.56 GMT) on 21 July, Neil ...

The first manned mission to the moon, Apollo 11, launched on July 16, 1969. The crew of NASA's Apollo 11 mission, from left, Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin, Michael Collins, and Neil Armstrong, pose with a ...

More than 100 spacecraft have been sent to the Moon since 1959, when a Soviet probe became the "first man-made object to disturb the lunar surface", said The Times's science reporter Kaya Burgess.

<!-- wp:gutenberg-custom-blocks/featured-media {"id":"5625428","url":"https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/small-step.jpg","caption":"Neil Armstrong steps ...

NASA is aiming to send astronauts back to the moon, because that is what President Trump set as the destination of the agency’s human spaceflight program during his first term. On Dec.