JOPLIN, Mo. -- Carried to the moon by the Apollo 11 spacecraft and left behind when it departed is a plaque bearing the signatures of the mission's three astronauts -- Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and ...
Three years after Purdue astronaut Neil Armstrong became the first person to walk on the moon in 1969, Armstrong’s fellow Boilermaker Eugene Cernan took humankind’s most recent steps on the lunar ...
Saturday, July 20, is Moon Day and the 55th 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. NASA will now ...
Walter Cunningham, the last surviving astronaut from the first crewed mission of NASA's Apollo program, has died at the age of 90. "Walt Cunningham was a fighter pilot, physicist, and an entrepreneur ...