Aldrin is still planting flags 56 years after he did so on the moon, only now it is in a commercial asking "Can you text me ...

The Apollo 11 astronauts used advanced technology ... powerful to break from the Earth's orbit and blast off into space, sending a spacecraft 250,000 miles to reach the Moon.

CAPE KENNEDY -- America's first three Apollo astronauts died only 218 feet off the ground Friday night in a blazing explosion inside their space capsule atop its launch pad. An electrical spark ...

Featuring space-themed images and stamps ... The Eagle has landed.’ Charlie Duke is Apollo 11’s capsule communicator at Mission Control – CAPCOM, for short. It’s his job to to pass ...

The successful Apollo 11 mission delivered two American astronauts ... humans on the moon in July 1969 was the climax of a 'space race' with the Soviet Union. Earlier in the 1960s, the two ...

I don’t like it.” On the afternoon of Jan. 27, clad in their space suits, the crew boarded the Apollo 1 capsule, perched high atop the Saturn IB. Grissom noticed a strange odor, like soured ...

Platoff explains that Apollo 11's flag-raising on the moon was strictly a symbolic activity. Given that the United States was a signatory to the United Nations Treaty on Outer Space, the nation ...