As Apollo 11 unfolded, the White House quietly prepared for the possibility that Armstrong and Aldrin would never return. This is the story of William Safire’s haunting memo, the speech Nixon was ...

As Apollo 11 unfolded, NASA and the White House quietly prepared for the unthinkable. This is the forgotten story of the speech President Nixon was ready to deliver if Armstrong and Aldrin were ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Fifty years after humans first visited, businesses are still trying to make a buck off the moon. Hundreds of millions of people were riveted when Apollo 11 landed on the moon on July ...

Fifty-five years ago today, humans landed on the Moon. On the mission were three American pilots, all military pilots who had served as combat or test pilots before heading to space. Apollo 11’s lunar ...

When Apollo 11 arrived in lunar orbit, the Soviet's probe was already there. The space race between the U.S. and the Soviet Union continued even as Apollo 11 astronauts were already walking on the ...

"It was the kind of thing that only happens once in your life," Kranz said. As millions around the world watched the first lunar landing attempt, the employees at NASA's mission control center in ...

The afternoon crowd in the main plaza of Space Center Houston knew what to expect as they watched Apollo 11’s Lunar Module Eagle spacecraft descend slowly. That wasn’t the case 55 years ago when ...