who described the Moon as "magnificent desolation". They spent 21 hours on its surface, including a seven-hour sleep, before returning to Earth. Find out more about the Apollo 11 mission below.

Apollo 11. On July 20, 1969, astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed in the Lunar Module Eagle and became the first humans to step foot on the lunar surface while astronaut Michael Collins ...

James Jarvis San Francisco, California All but one of the Apollo program's used lunar modules either crashed into the Moon's surface or burned ... same tasks as Apollo 11 - minus landing on ...

"Image of Apollo 11 and 12 taken by India's Moon orbiter. Disapproving Moon landing deniers," Curiosity wrote on X, along with the overhead photos that show the landing vehicles on the surface of ...

suitable for celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission and the 'one small step' taken by Neil Armstrong on the lunar surface. Little Stargazing. collectionLittle Stargazing In this ...

Apollo 11's flag raising on the ancient lunar surface took all of 10 minutes during Neil Armstrong's and Buzz Aldrin's two-and-a-half hour moonwalking adventure in July 1969. But that seminal ...

However, due to the Space Race with Russia, President John F Kennedy announced the goal of landing an American on the moon’s surface, causing Apollo 11’s mission to change. The astronauts ...

The Apollo 11 spacecraft was comprised of two vehicles: a command module named "Columbia" and the lunar module "Eagle." The earlier remained in lunar orbit with astronaut Michael Collins while ...

New details about the small pieces of the moon gifted by the United States to Ireland in 1970 have now been unearthed. Unfortunately, the same cannot be said for the Apollo 11 lunar samples ...