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 ...

But if things had gone differently, the Russian might have become the first person to walk on the Moon. Read the story of the first spacewalk, and how the mission nearly didn't come back to Earth.

DERMOT O’LEARY: In 1969, Neil Armstrong was the first human being to set foot on the Moon and in doing so completely changed our view of the world. 18 years earlier, as a 21-year-old fighter ...

In September 2002, the astronaut Buzz Aldrin – the second man to walk on the Moon – was ... by the American government.

On 18 March 1965 Soviet cosmonaut Alexei Leonov became the first person to leave a space ... in competition with the US to reach the moon. Leonov’s walk on 18 March 1965 was not without its ...

An engineer has been recognised with a blue plaque for his role in helping to put mankind on the Moon. Tom Bacon, a Cambridge ...

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 ...