of Colorado. For better or for worse, a small part of the Apollo 11 spacecraft will now be Jon Mesick's to have and to hold for all the days of his life. The strip of golden thermal polyimide tape ...

Apollo 11's flight path took the spacecraft into Earth orbit 11 minutes after launch. Just over two hours later, during its second orbit, the rocket's third stage fired again to boost Apollo ...

One returned two amber glass cigar ashtrays used during the mission – preferred by the chain-smoking Apollo 11 Mission Control team as the smaller ... aka the ‘Regal Rocket’, identical to the model ...

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Introducing the Apollo 11 Crew: Neil Armstrong (commander), Buzz Aldrin (lunar module pilot), and Michael Collins (command module pilot). The first Moon mission will be called Apollo 11.

It's nearly 50 years since the US became the first country to land men on the Moon. The Apollo 11 mission was a huge moment in US and world history, but what exactly happened and why does it matter?

The crew of NASA's Apollo 11 mission, from left, Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin, Michael Collins, and Neil Armstrong, pose with a model of the moon in 1969. Armstrong, Collins and Aldrin pose in front of ...