Apollo 11 - Landing on the Sea of Tranquility - July 20, 1969. 16mm landing film by Gary Neff, source footage courtesy John Knoll. Full description: http://history ...
July 20th is Moon Day, Space Exploration Day and the anniversary of the first Apollo 11 moonwalk. Here’s a look at the Apollo program and the new Artemis program to return to the lunar surface.
(CNN) — Here’s a look at the first moon landing on July 20, 1969. The moon landing was watched by an estimated 600 million people around the world. July 20, 1969 – [4:17 p.m. EDT] Apollo 11 becomes ...
A half-century ago, in the middle of a mean year of war, famine, violence in the streets and the widening of the generation gap, men from planet Earth stepped onto another world for the first time, ...
Leading up to the historic 1969 Apollo 11 mission, ABC News built a mock Apollo command module to give viewers an inside look at how astronauts would travel to the lunar surface. See more of the ...
On Christmas Eve 1968, Apollo 8 crewmembers Frank Borman, Jim Lovell, and Bill Anders made a live broadcast from orbit around the Moon.
The key event of 1969 was the successful American Apollo mission to the moon when at 3.56am on July 21 Neil Armstrong became the first man to walk on the surface of the planet uttering the memorable ...
On Christmas Eve 1968, the Earth received a message from astronauts on a mission like no other - the first around the moon. NASA will return in 2026.
John Noble Wilford, the distinguished science journalist for The New York Times who covered the first moon landing in 1969 and later won a Pulitzer Prize, has died. He was 92. The Times published ...
Cat Inc., colloquially known as Caterpillar, is celebrating its 100th anniversary this year. While the brand is perhaps best known for its heavy machinery — dozers, backhoes, excavators, generators ...