NASA's Apollo program was an enormous effort to get humans to the moon. This program marked the last time humans landed on the moon's surface. Here are noteworthy missions.

“One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.” – Neil Armstrong, Apollo 11. “This has a stark beauty all its own. It’s like the high desert of the United States.” – Neil ...

A detailed description of what the launch and landing of Apollo 11 were like for many of the 400,000 insiders who worked on the most famous space exploration mission in history.

When the Apollo 11 space craft blasted off to the moon 50 years ago this month, one black woman watched from manufacturing facility that worked on the spacecraft. Her name is Mary Matilda Factory.

A manual from the Apollo 11 lunar module could fetch up to $9 million when it goes on sale next week as part of an auction marking the moon landing’s 50th anniversary.

Fifty years ago, the Apollo 11 mission took us farther from Earth than we had ever gone and, in doing so, brought us all closer, if only for the eight days, three hours, eighteen minutes and ...

Apollo 11’s flight is only a beginning, a scouting expedition. Nine more Apollo landings at different sites on the moon are planned by NASA; the next one, Apollo 12, is scheduled for this November.

The historic launch of the Apollo 11 mission carried three astronauts toward the moon. Two of them would set foot on the lunar surface for the first time in human history.

The three-person Apollo 11 crew was made up of Navy aviators and an Air Force pilot. They became the first mission to land on the Moon.

The Apollo 11 computer had a processor – an electronic circuit that performs operations on external data sources – which ran at 0.043 MHz. The latest iPhone’s processor is estimated to run ...

Man on the moon 50 years later: Luna 15 The space race was still going on between the U.S. and the Soviet Union even as Apollo 11 astronauts were on the lunar surface.