to engineers and technicians who were closely involved in the Apollo Program. Moon landing 51st anniversary: A look back at July 20, 1969 Astronauts take a look back 50 years to moon landing Part ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

But since the moon appears full for a few days a month surrounding its peak, the best time to view it might be on Saturday to mark the 55th anniversary of the Apollo 11 lunar landing, the first ...