The crew of Artemis III will not only reflect the diversity of America but will also be as qualified to walk on the moon as were Armstrong and Aldrin, all those decades ago.

Neil A. Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon, was born Aug. 5, 1930 in Wapakoneta, Ohio. In 1947, Armstrong enrolled at Purdue University on a Navy scholarship to pursue a degree in ...

On 20 July 1969, Neil Armstrong became the first man to walk on the Moon. These programmes and clips tell the story of the Apollo Moon missions, how they got off the ground and why the missions ...

On 18 March 1965 Soviet cosmonaut Alexei Leonov became the first person to leave a space ... in competition with the US to reach the moon. Leonov’s walk on 18 March 1965 was not without its ...

DERMOT O’LEARY: In 1969, Neil Armstrong was the first human being to set foot on the Moon and in doing so completely changed our view of the world. 18 years earlier, as a 21-year-old fighter ...

Expected to fetch between $20,000 and $27,000, the image was discovered 17 years after the 1969 historic trip made Armstrong the first man to walk on the moon. The astronaut was also behind the ...