On July 20, 1969, humanity achieved one of its greatest milestones: landing a person on the Moon. The Apollo 11 mission, launched by the United States' National Aeronautics and Space Administration ...

Having launched on July 16, 1969, and landed on the Moon on July 20, the Apollo 11 astronauts returned home and splashed down ...

Buzz Aldrin pays tribute to the Apollo 11 mission on its anniversary, invoking Kennedy's famous speech and expressing ...

Wikimedia Commons/NASA Apollo 8 Astronauts and the USS Yorktown Apollo 8 splashed down at 10:51 a.m. on December 27, 1968, in the Pacific Ocean 1,000 miles southwest of Hawaii. USS Yorktown waited ...