On July 20th, 1969, Apollo 11 astronaut Neil Armstrong of Wapakoneta, Ohio, became the first person to walk on the moon. The day is now commemorated as National Moon Day or National Space Exploration ...

On July 20, 1969, awestruck viewers around the world watched on television as Ohioan Neil Armstrong become the first person to walk on the moon. Armstrong was born in Wapakoneta, Ohio, and spent his ...

DALLAS — In the summer of 1969, Rick Armstrong was 12 and whacking the baseball in the Houston-area Little League. He was selected to play in the all-star game — but he had to skip it, because he was ...

When Miami Valley native Neil Armstrong walked on the moon on July 20, 1969, it inspired an entire generation. Mark Brown of Beavercreek was one of the countless people who remembers watching the ...

When NASA’s Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin stepped on the moon in 1969 as the first humans, the length and extent of their extravehicular venture were mostly dictated by the ...

APOLLO 11 ON MOON ---- Astronaut Edwin E. Aldrin Jr., lunar module pilot, walks on the surface of the Moon near a leg of the lunar Module during the Apollo 11 extravehicular activity. Astronaut Neil A ...

Neil Armstrong was a quiet self-described nerdy engineer who became a global hero when as a steely-nerved pilot he made "one giant leap for mankind" with a small step on to the moon. The modest man ...

Last week in my column about my experience with COVID-19, I talked about camping out in front of the computer and watching some old NASA films online about the Gemini missions. Among those films was ...

Taken by Buzz Aldrin, the second person to walk on the moon, the Armstrong photo shows the famed astronaut standing beside the Lunar Module Eagle, which is what took the crew into space on the Apollo ...

(AP) Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon, is recovering from heart surgery days after his 82nd birthday. A NASA spokesman talked to Armstrong’s wife, Carol, and said the former astronaut ...

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