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 ...

Research suggests the Earth captured the Moon from space, rather than forming the rocky satellite from collision particles ...

Delivered to the Moon's orbit by Soviet spacecraft Luna 17 on November 15, the spacecraft made a soft landing in the Sea of ...

Read more at http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/We-Have-Liftoff.html Photographer David Burnett focused his camera on the many tourists who flocked to Florida in 1969 to watch the ...

In 1970, brothers Dave and John Kunst—with $1,500 in cash, a letter of recommendation from former VP Hubert Humphrey, and a ...

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 ...

Alas, the legend that is the Omega Speedmaster was born.

BC: Vercingetorix, leader of the Gauls, surrenders to the Romans under Julius Caesar. 42BC: Gaius Cassius, Roman senator and ...

As big beasts like Led Zeppelin and Deep Purple dominated the era, players such as Steve Howe and Brian May transformed the ...