Neil A. Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon, was born Aug. 5, 1930 in Wapakoneta, Ohio. In 1947, Armstrong enrolled at Purdue University on a Navy scholarship to pursue a degree in ...

No one has been back to the moon for over 50 years, but the reasons why are multifaceted and not obvious at first glance.

He's a man with an extraordinary story of how, way back in 1909, he got to the Moon first, and, together with the eccentric Professor Cavor, discovered a terrifying secret deep beneath its ...

Long before Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams got stuck on the space station, Apollo 11 astronauts were having their own ...

The astronauts of Apollo 8 were the first men to see the far side of the moon with their own eyes, without the aid of optical devices. From their orbital altitude of 69 statute miles, Frank Borman ...

NASA appears to be walking back its pledge to land the first woman and person of color on the moon as part of the Trump administration’s push to eliminate diversity initiatives from federal agencies.

Lovell's career at NASA began in September 1962 and he embarked on his first space mission for the Gemini 7 mission on ...

More than 100 spacecraft have been sent to the Moon since 1959, when a Soviet probe became the "first man-made object to disturb the lunar surface", said The Times's science reporter Kaya Burgess.

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The 10-day mission — much like the first uncrewed Artemis I mission successfully completed in December — is paving the way for future long-term human exploration missions to the Moon ...

By 1959, Luna 2 crash-landed on the moon — the first man-made object on the lunar surface — and by October of that year a third probe circled around and photographed the far side of the moon.