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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

Humankind first touched down on the moon on July 20, 1969, on the Apollo 11 mission, in which Neil Armstrong became the first man to step foot on the moon. Artemis III, which will send two ...

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.” ...

Hours later, at 21:56 CT (02:56 GMT), Neil Armstrong made history by becoming the first person to walk on the Moon. Originally inspired by the US's Cold War rivalry with the Soviet Union ...

By 1959, Luna 2 crash-landed on the moon — the first man-made object on the lunar surface — and by October of that year a third probe circled around and photographed the far side of the moon.

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.