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 ...

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

We're getting closer. In February, a US lunar lander touched down on the moon's surface for the first time since Apollo 17.

Everyone knows the name of the first man on the moon, but what about the last? Eugene Cernan left the final bootprint that may ever appear on the surface of our dusty satellite. Yet Cernan has ...

However, the US lunar program is delayed, in part because the spacesuits and lunar-landing vehicle are not ready. Meanwhile, ...

Fonds de dotation Clinatec Thibault was able to move his arms and legs when in the exoskeleton "It was like [being the] first man on the Moon," said 30-year-old Thibault. He was describing the ...

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 ...

Ryan Gosling is tipped for an Oscar nomination for playing Neil Armstrong in First Man A new film about Neil Armstrong tells the story of how he became the first man to walk on the Moon.

National Moon Day commemorates the time Neil Armstrong landed on the lunar surface followed by his first steps saying, “That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.” ...

Radio comedy BBC Radio 4 2019 1 episode (1 series) The multi award winning National Theatre of Brent (Desmond Olivier Dingle and Raymond Box) pay tribute to some Iconic Icons. The National Theatre Of ...

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.