but is there any astronaut’s name more famous than Neil Armstrong‘s? The Ohio-born inspiration became the first man to ever ...

A piece of fabric from the Wright Flyer, the first powered airplane to sustain flight, will be on display at the Frontiers of ...

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 ...

DERMOT O’LEARY: In 1969, Neil Armstrong was the first ... as Armstrong stepped onto the Moon’s surface and spoke the words, ‘One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind’.

Neil Armstrong is one of the most famous ... His answer was an act of kindness to reawaken a young man's optimistic spirit of the Moon landings, rather than to provide a reporter with a story.

Experts were blindsided after Neil Armstrong's widow discovered a bag of technical items that were originally supposed to ...

The useful life: about two and a half hours. The clothing in question: the spacesuit Neil Armstrong wore when he stepped on the moon 50 years ago next July. <!-- /wp:paragraph --><!-- wp ...

While the moon is far from Earth, with humans venturing increasingly into space, the experts thought it was the right time to ...

And of course, Gemini 8 also launched the space career of Neil Armstrong — not only the first man to walk on the Moon, but the man whose steely nerves made that Moon walk possible. (Come back ...

Recent photos taken by India’s Space Research Organization moon orbiter, known as Chandrayaan 2, clearly show the Apollo 11 and Apollo 12 landing sites more than 50 years later.

On 20 July 1969, Neil Armstrong became the first man to walk on the Moon. These programmes and clips tell the story of the Apollo Moon missions, how they got off the ground and why the missions ...