And now we're celebrating the 50th anniversary of that ... as far as the moon. The Apollo missions needed roughly three days' travel time each way -- Apollo 11 got from Earth to lunar orbit ...

Scroll down to see the missions that came before Apollo 11. Feb. 3, 1966 Launched by the Soviet Union, Luna 9 was the first spacecraft to make a soft landing on the lunar surface. June 6 ...

The two spent the next few hours collecting samples, basking in the sunlight of the powdery landscape, and exploring the Sea of Tranquillity, Apollo 11's landing site. They also proudly planted an ...

Thousands of people have been celebrating the 50th anniversary of the first Moon landing. On 20 July 1969, the Eagle module from Apollo 11 landed at Tranquility Base. Hours later, at 21:56 CT (02: ...

Six hours and 39 minutes later, Apollo 11 commander Neil Armstrong made history ... After a series of nail-biting moments leading up to the landing, the lunar module touched down on the Sea ...

As NASA celebrates the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing, the agency is scrambling to meet the White House demand that it put Americans back on the moon by 2024. It's a huge test of ...

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Kennedy in 1961, to perform a crewed lunar landing and return to Earth. The Apollo 11 mission remains widely celebrated as it approaches its 50th anniversary in 2019. The U.S. Mint prepared ...

July 15 (UPI) --NASA is recognizing the 55th anniversary of the Apollo moon landing this month with a variety of events and engagements that started on Monday. Apollo 11 landed on the moon on July ...

The Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum will celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing with a life-size projection of the Saturn V rocket on the Washington Monument on ...

What if Apollo 11 had had a modern computer? The Apollo computer was state of the art in its time, but what would have been different if the moon landing had the state-of-the-art computers that ...

Images from the Apollo 11 mission were projected onto the Washington Monument in Washington DC Thousands of people have been celebrating the 50th anniversary of the first Moon landing. On 20 July ...