July 16 this year marks the 57th anniversary of the historic Apollo 11 mission, which saw two men walk on the Moon.

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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — NASA’s Apollo moonshots are a tough act to follow, even after all this time. As four astronauts get set to blast off on humanity’s first trip to the moon in more than half a ...

Nearly 60 years ago, three Americans made history as the first humans to ever break free of Earth's orbit on their way toward the moon. And when they passed behind the moon to the side Earth never ...

These digits may seem like a random number sequence, but for a select few people in this country's history, they mean everything. More than 400,000 people worked tirelessly to put astronauts Neil ...

It’s been nearly 50 years since NASA put a man on the moon but many of the technologies invented for the groundbreaking Apollo space program are still used in our lives on Earth today. From the tiny ...

Ever since Apollo 11 carried the first people to the Moon, NASA has vowed that it will surpass its most historic achievement — either by returning to the Moon or by sending people to Mars. But after ...

There have been billions of people that have walked the face of the Earth throughout history, but only 12 of have ever walked on the surface of the Moon. For the select few that have ever walked on ...

One of the early Apollo astronauts has died. Walt Cunningham died Tuesday after complications from a fall. He was 90. Walt Cunningham flew in space just one time. His flight in 1968 was an important — ...

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We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. NASA's Apollo 11 has had an outsize influence on our culture since July 20th, 1969. That's the day the spaceflight mission successfully ...

Scientists from NASA had a lot more leeway to conduct weird experiments 50 years ago, which included feeding moon dust to German cockroaches. But it didn’t stop there. Astronauts Neil Armstrong and ...