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

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’.

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 ...

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 ...

As the first man to walk on the moon, Neil Armstrong's name is forever solidified in history. There have been plenty of ...

Many times in our moments of weakness or embarrassment—when we believe we will be met with hostility—we encounter grace and ...

Zero-gravity cuisine has come a long way since humans first stepped on the moon. But Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin probably ...

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 ...

Apollo 11 landed on the moon on July 20, 1969, making Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin the first men to walk on its surface. Astronaut Michael Collins, the third man on the Apollo 11 mission ...

President Nixon on the phone with Neil Armstrong and "Buzz" Aldrin ... the tremendous outlay of taxpayer dollers to put a man on the moon, most Americans united in support of NASA's work against ...