Neil Armstrong is widely remembered as the commander of Apollo 11, the landmark NASA mission that carried humans to the Moon. On July 20, 1969, he made history as the first person to set foot on the ...

Apollo 11 astronaut Neil Armstrong captures his shadow while taking a photo of the lunar module on the surface of the moon in this photo from July 20, 1969. Sunday, July 20, marks the 45th anniversary ...

Even his friends acknowledge that it wasn't easy to make Neil Armstrong laugh: One of his crewmates on the historic Apollo 11 mission in 1969, Michael Collins, recalled this week that history's first ...

"There are places to go beyond belief," he said. Aug. 26, 2012 — -- Neil Armstrong, the Apollo 11 astronaut who died Saturday at 82, said he did not want to live his life as an icon, remembered ...

Apollo 11 commander Neil Armstrong poses with his wife Jean, and their sons Eric and Mark ; Neil Armstrong's sons Rick and Mark pose for a photo with items that belonged to their father at Heritage ...

Watching the bubble-helmeted, space-suited Neil Armstrong bounce carefully across the moon's dusty, airless surface – a historic moment seen live by 600 million people on grainy black-and-white ...

The moon landing wasn’t about Armstrong or Aldrin; it was about us. Fifty years on, the two men who took those first steps are extensions of us, partly real, partly imagined You can save this article ...

Ryan Gosling says he struggled to connect to the remarkable life of astronaut Neil Armstrong as he prepared for the historical drama First Man. But he finally found a way in through an unlikely source ...

The Ref. BA 145.022 was given to the first man on the moon at a gala dinner in Houston’s Warwick Hotel on November 25, 1969, mere months after Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walked on the lunar surface.

Neil Armstrong was famously the first man to walk on the moon. But at home, his three children — Mark, Karen and Rick — just knew him as "Dad." Neil welcomed his kids with Janet Shearon Armstrong, to ...