Apollo 13 was to be the third mission to land on ... a total of 12 astronauts had touched down on the lunar surface. Neil Armstrong made history by becoming the first person to set foot on the ...

Skipping ahead: The third near-fatal space-race disaster was in April 1970, when one of Apollo 13’s oxygen ... of a first-time astronaut named Neil Armstrong, Gemini 8’s crew would have ...

Zero-gravity cuisine has come a long way since humans first stepped on the moon. But Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin probably ...

50 years after the historic Apollo 11 mission that landed the first humans on the moon, the Smithsonian celebrates by releasing the results of a multi-year conservation effort of Neil Armstrong’s ...

Neil A. Armstrong ... Gemini 8 was launched on March 16, 1966, and Armstrong performed the first successful docking of two vehicles in space. As spacecraft commander for Apollo 11, the first crewed ...

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This week marks the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission, which first landed American astronauts on the moon's surface. Of the intrepid crew, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin have tended to ...