It's nearly 50 years since the US became the first country to land men on the Moon. The Apollo 11 mission was a huge moment in US and world history, but what exactly happened and why does it matter?

The historic touchdown of Neil Armstrong and Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin on the Moon came just after 9pm GMT on July 20, 1969 with the “landing so perfect” that the first steps onto the lunar surface came ...

Neil Armstrong is perhaps best known for saying 12 words on July 20, 1969: "That's one small step for a man, one giant leap ...

In 1969, it took nearly 4 lakh NASA employees ... and websites dedicated to reinforcing this idea that man has never stepped on the Moon. All can be traced back to Kaysing’s 1976 book, We ...

July 1969, and as the world waits ... 90-year-old Julius Bedford. He's a man with an extraordinary story of how, way back in 1909, he got to the Moon first, and, together with the eccentric ...

Half of the airframe for the Columbia was built in Tulsa, according to David Blankenship, public relations director for Tulsa ...

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 ...

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 ...

A virtual army of 400,000 people worked to make John F. Kennedy’s challenge to land a man on the moon in 1969 a reality. They flocked to the Apollo program for many reasons. Some relished the ...

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 ...

In 1971, American astronaut Edgar Mitchell spent nine hours walking the surface of the Moon as part of the Apollo 14 program.

The brand-new Omega Speedmaster First Omega in Space is based not upon a NASA-approved Moonwatch, but the reference CK 2998 ...