INFOGRAPHIC: Apollo 11 By The Numbers
Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins and Buzz Aldrin launched from Kennedy Space Center on July 16, 1969 with a mission to land on the moon.
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Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins and Buzz Aldrin launched from Kennedy Space Center on July 16, 1969 with a mission to land on the moon.
NASA's Apollo space program was dedicated to putting American astronauts on the moon.
On July 20, 1969, Commander Neil Armstrong announced to NASA mission control, "the Eagle has landed."
The Apollo 11 crew consisted of Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins, but there was a crucial "fourth crew member" on board: the Apollo Guidance Computer.
For years, NASA has been creating technology for space that ends up enhancing our everyday lives.
Fortunately, for Apollo 11 and all of mankind, a young, brilliant MIT software engineer saw a potentially mission-crippling error coming from nearly a million miles away.
Growing up in rural Georgia, Lewis Wooten felt light years away from the long, illustrious career he has built at NASA.
During the Cold War, one battlefront between the USA and USSR was in the sky, as the nations fought to be first to space.
NASA will be honoring the town of Paradise with their new rover set to make a trip to Mars.
Three small companies that built robotic lunar landers are getting big business from NASA.
NASA is planning on sending the first woman ever and the first man in nearly five decades to the moon by 2024, thanks to an additional increase to the agency's budget by President Trump.
The giant space rock has the fitting code name 99942 Apophis, the Greek name for an Egyptian serpent god hell-bent on swallowing the sun.
Former astronaut Owen Garriott, who flew on America's first space station, Skylab, and whose son followed him into orbit, has died at age 88.
Lawmakers are considering spending $150 million to fund new high-tech measurements of the snowpack using lasers.
NASA is looking for 40 social media users who are passionate about aviation and astronomy to tour its Armstrong Flight Research Center.
Chances are the first person to land on the red planet will be a woman, the head of NASA said recently.
NASA's Juno spacecraft has sent back some lovely new photos of Jupiter that give us all of the Post-Impressionist feels.
The Sierra Nevada is living up to its name.
A NASA spacecraft 4 billion miles from Earth yielded its first close-up pictures Wednesday of the most distant celestial object ever explored, depicting what looks like a reddish snowman.
After blasting off from Cape Canaveral more than a decade ago, NASA's New Horizons spacecraft has survived NASA's most distant exploration of another world.
Did you see it? A mysterious light in the sky seen all across California tonight is leaving many wondering, "what was that?"
As Mars' newest resident settles in, Planet Earth is working on three more landers and at least two orbiters to join the scientific Martian brigade.
The team was given five tasks to complete while inside the mock space lunar capsule while under 30 feet of water in Meeks Bay.
Scientists have long believed that water ice could exist in the ever-dark recesses at the moon's poles and that belief has finally been confirmed in a paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences on Aug. 20.
