HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- The goal was clear and anything but simple or fathomable. President John F. Kennedy issued the directive in 1961 to NASA: land a crew of astronauts on the moon and bring them ...

Jan. 20—Some people who've lived to be 105 might consider the Apollo 11 moon landing as one of the most impressive things they've seen in their lifetime. Seeing Commander Neil Armstrong and Module ...

NASA's objective was for the experiment to only last for five years. The Apollo 11 crew didn't just just accomplish landing on the lunar surface and returning safely — the men also conducted several ...

In July 1969, four faculty members traveled from College Park to Kennedy Space Center in Florida to provide last-minute instruction to a noteworthy pupil: an Apollo 11 astronaut about to become one of ...

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (KCRG) - Fifty-six years ago this week, astronaut Neil Armstrong coined one of the most famous lines in American history when he became the first person to walk on the moon. But you ...

When I was a lad, growing up in the suburbs, in between playing baseball in the cow pasture and going to Saturday matinees, my friends got together and formed The Rocket Club. We were 10 or 11, and ...

"It was the kind of thing that only happens once in your life," Kranz said. As millions around the world watched the first lunar landing attempt, the employees at NASA's mission control center in ...