An 18-karat gold version of the first watch worn on the moon has set a ... As the commander of the Apollo 11 mission, Armstrong left his Speedmaster inside the lunar module "Eagle" as a backup ...

The Apollo lunar missions worked by using a spacecraft in two parts. The Command and Service Module (CSM) and the Lunar ...

Did you know that Canadian feet were actually the first to touch down on the Moon during the Apollo 11 mission?

From solar probes to deep space missions, these record-breaking human-made objects reached speeds that make bullets and jets ...

The "Blue Marble" was the first photo of the whole Earth and the only ever taken by a human. Fifty years on, new images of ...

Most impressive of all: It had flown on Apollo 11, the first mission to land humans on the moon. When Michael Collins, Apollo 11’s command module pilot ... landed on the lunar surface.

Recently, Worden was at Smithsonian’s Air and Space Museum to sign his new book, Falling to Earth, about his lunar mission ... who was the command module pilot on Apollo 11.

Lunar tourism ... reusable rockets will eventually bring down costs. When Apollo 11 first brought humans to the Moon, only the command module made it back to Earth, most of the spacecraft was ...