"I weighed 363 pounds with all my equipment, but up on the Moon, just 60 pounds — so you could really spring up!” ...

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 ...

Strange as it may sound, where the astronauts sat (or "sat" – the crew actually stood) in the Apollo Lunar Module may have ...

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 ...

Strange as it may sound, where the astronauts sat (or “sat” – the crew actually stood) in the Apollo Lunar Module may have profoundly impacted the way the experience of walking on the Moon affected ...

“That’s one small step for [a] man, one giant leap for mankind." Neil and Buzz spent nearly three hours walking on the Moon. They conducted important scientific experiments, collected samples ...

who is a lay preacher at Cathedral Isle of Man, said early visitors had been "wowed" by the display after walking into the space, and had spent time learning about the Moon and its surface.

More than 100 spacecraft have been sent to the Moon since 1959, when a Soviet probe became the "first man-made object to ... "Just us walking on it has a bigger environmental impact than anything ...

(Armstrong would later claim, "'That's one small step for 'a' man.' It's just that people just didn't hear it.") The 600 million people watching the moon landing on television would remember that ...