The historic computer software code that took Apollo 11 to the moon has been open-sourced and is available to anyone to read, ...

The Apollo program was the first to bring humans to the moon. Even though the program began in the early 1960s until 1972, with 12 astronauts walking the moon's surface during this time frame, there ...

Text excerpted from Norman Mailer's Of a fire on the moon, first published in 1970. "Mailer text edited for this edition by J. Michael Lennon. This edition conceived by Lawrence Schiller"--Colophon.

A half-century ago, in the middle of a mean year of war, famine, violence in the streets and the widening of the generation gap, men from planet Earth stepped onto another world for the first time, ...

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About an hour after the launch of Apollo 11 on July 16, 1969, Stephen and Viola Armstrong emerged from their Wapakoneta, Ohio, home to address members of the news media gathered on their lawn. “I was ...

Frances 'Poppy' Northcutt speaks with a NASA colleague in Houston, Texas, circa 1969.TRW/PhotoQuest—Getty Images The boundary broken by the Apollo 11 astronauts, when they became the first humans to ...

On July 20, 1969, Apollo 11 astronaut Neil Armstrong announced his historic arrival on the ancient lava plain of Mare Tranquillitatis with the following message to NASA: "Houston, Tranquility Base ...