As the first human on the Moon, Neil Armstrong famously reflected on the Earths fragility, calling it a “tiny pea, pretty and blue.” This observation captured how small and precious our planet appears ...

There is only one photograph of Neil Armstrong walking on the moon, and in it, he has his back to the camera. The first man to set foot on a planetary body other than Earth was not camera shy. It was ...

At the start of a talk at the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference in Houston in March, Harrison Schmitt, one of the two astronauts who walked on the moon during Apollo 17, the last lunar mission, ...

Letters selected from Purdue University Archives and Special Collections' larger Barron Hilton Flight and Space Exploration Archives, established in 2011 "In the years between the historic first moon ...

Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon, died Saturday, weeks after having heart surgery, NBC News confirmed. He was 82. Armstrong was commander of the Apollo 11 spacecraft that landed on ...

(AP) - 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 ...

For a story largely set in the endless expanse of outer space, “First Man” sure is one claustrophobic movie.