However, when Apollo 11 neared its destination, astronauts performed a braking manoeuvre known as "lunar orbit insertion" to slow the spacecraft and cause it to go into orbit around the Moon.

Even Neil Armstrong couldn't remember exactly what he said at that key moment in the first-ever moon landing, NASA's Apollo 11 mission, as he stepped onto the lunar surface. You know the line ...

A new mathematical study suggests that the abandoned Ascent Stage of the Apollo 11 mission's Eagle Lunar Module (LM), long believed to have crashed on the Moon in 1969, may be circling our largest ...

Mr. Collins is often the forgotten astronaut on Apollo 11, the one who remained in orbit, 60 miles above the moon in the Apollo command module, waiting for his crewmates, Neil Armstrong and Buzz ...

Following Apollo 11, NASA put humans on the moon on another five occasions, ending with Apollo 17 in 1972 ... The surface of the moon as seen from the Apollo 11 shuttle while in lunar orbit.

Apollo 10 got within nine miles of the moon's surface. The crew took pictures and gathered information about the landing sites for Apollo 11. This mission began on May 18, 1969 and ended on May 26.

When Apollo 11 arrived in lunar orbit, the Soviet's probe was already there. The space race between the U.S. and the Soviet Union continued even as Apollo 11 astronauts were already walking on the ...

The Apollo 11 lunar module traveled through space after being propelled toward the moon by a powerful rocket. Astronauts made the journey in a different, attached module − called the command module.

John Glenn, the first American to orbit Earth, hailed from New Concord on the opposite side of the state, some 150 miles ... 1969, with news of the history Apollo 11 moon landing.

In 1969, John F. Kennedy’s dream of putting a man on the moon was realized, and it left New Yorkers spellbound. On July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed Apollo 11’s lunar module ...