Anita Mitchell, who was married to late NASA pilot Edgar Mitchell, said the Apollo astronaut and many of his colleagues firmly believed that extra-terrestrial life is out there ...

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 ...

Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon, was born Aug. 5, 1930 in Wapakoneta ... Over the next 17 years, he served as an engineer, test pilot, astronaut and administrator for NACA and its ...

Microgravity causes muscles and bones to weaken in space, making walking on Earth ... "Speaking to astronauts when they come back to Earth, the thing they find amazing is the first breath of ...

By the time the agency is ready to send the first astronauts to walk on the moon as early as 2025, for example, it will have spent about $93 billion on the project, according to a federal watchdog.

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 ...