On May 25 1961, before a joint session of Congress, President John F. Kennedy committed the US to the goal, before the decade ...
NASA had a contingency plan in case Apollo astronauts were stranded near the Moon, but it was far stranger and riskier than ...
On July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong became the first human to set foot on the Earth’s moon. On July 16, 1969, Armstrong, Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin and Michael Collins were launched from Cape Kennedy atop a ...