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50 years ago, CBS News anchor Walter Cronkite brought the frontier of outer space to televisions across America
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50 years ago, CBS News anchor Walter Cronkite brought the frontier of outer space to televisions across America
A timeline of major events in the decade-long race to land astronauts on the moon
The crew of Apollo 11 came together by chance for the first moon landing
Astronaut Michael Collins, Mission Control flight director Gene Kranz and spacecraft communicator Charlie Duke recount the first manned landing on the moon
Americans favor another U.S. mission to the moon and exploration of Mars
Americans says space program contributes to scientific advances, pride and patriotism
With alarms going off and fuel running low, the first moon landing was more of an edge-of-the-seat affair than most people realize
Martha Teichner on the CBS News veteran's coverage of an epochal human event: Man landing on the moon
When NASA needed a lunar spacesuit for the Apollo astronauts, they turned to the experts – the women who sewed girdles and bras for Playtex
Jeffrey Kluger, editor-at-large at Time magazine, recounts the Apollo 11 mission, and the human landmark of landing men on the lunar surface
"We did something really, really big. Nobody else had done it before... And it took a lot of courage."
When it comes to commemorating the anniversary of Man landing on the moon, the sky's the limit!
Six unstudied samples remain -- for now
"CBS This Morning" got an exclusive look inside the three-year, multimillion-dollar renovation
50 photos to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the moon landing
Mission control might never have witnessed Neil Armstrong take his first steps on the moon if it weren't for the vision of men like Eugene Shoemaker
Douglas Brinkley is telling the backstory of the mission in his new book, "American Moonshot"
NASA's Apollo space program stretched from 1961 to 1972, culminating in a dozen men walking on the moon
New images from inside the command module that landed the first men on the moon
The Smithsonian uncovers new details from inside the first spacecraft to land on the moon
President John F. Kennedy ignited the "space race" with the Soviet Union on May 25, 1961 with his goal of putting an American on the moon; The Apollo 11 mission captured the imagination of a generation when astronaut Neil Armstrong became the first person to step foot on the moon July 20, 1969
The world is getting a look at some souvenirs Neil Armstrong quietly brought home from Apollo 11 and kept secret for decades
Volcanic terrains in Hawaii had a close resemblance to the surface of the moon, making it an ideal location to train astronauts