President Trump set the U.S. on a path to sending astronauts back to the lunar surface during his first term. Lately he has ...

How long did it take Apollo 11 to reach the moon and when did the astronauts return to Earth? It took Apollo 11 and its astronauts four days, six hours, and 45 minutes to reach the moon.

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NASA’s Apollo Program was built on ambition, but it nearly collapsed after a deadly disaster. From the Apollo 1 tragedy to ...

She was on the team that specialized in trans-earth injection, the maneuvers that put the spacecraft on course to return to Earth from lunar orbit. During missions including Apollo 8, Apollo 11 ...

The first manned mission to the moon, Apollo 11, launched on July 16, 1969. The crew of NASA's Apollo 11 mission, from left, Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin, Michael Collins, and Neil Armstrong, pose with a ...

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, managed the Ranger program, a series of spacecraft designed to return closeup ... and indeed Apollo 11 landed 44 miles southeast of ...

But the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11 reminds us that this laughably ambitious goal has in fact already been proved doable--on a short deadline, at a time when computers were the size of rooms ...