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Neil A. Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon ... Armstrong gained the distinction of being the first man to land a craft on the moon and first to step on its surface.

Purdue University graduate and Apollo 11 flight commander Neil Armstrong became the first person to step foot on the moon on July 20, 1969. It was a truly giant leap for mankind, and a seminal moment ...

In fact, if it weren’t for the extremely quick thinking of a first-time astronaut named Neil Armstrong, Gemini 8’s crew would have been killed. The Gemini program was a series of proof-of ...

Armstrong was the reflection of a nation’s will to go to an unknown and he was a true explorer, mankind’s first triumphant step off this world. Dermot O’Leary learns how American Neil ...

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 ...

The first manned mission to the moon, Apollo 11, launched on July 16, 1969. The crew of NASA's Apollo 11 mission, from left, Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin, Michael Collins, and Neil Armstrong, pose with a ...

I’m Neil Armstrong. These are my buddies Buzz Aldrin ... The Soviet Union put the first person into space, so President Kennedy of the United States of America set a challenge.

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 ...