Inside Neil Armstrong's boyhood home, at the top of a creaky stairway, sits his bedroom where he launched model airplanes out ...

Attracting millions of people each year, the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum contains a trove of celebrated ...

July 24 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1679, New Hampshire became a royal colony of the British crown. In 1847, after 17 months and many miles of travel, Brigham Young led 148 Mormon pioneers ...

The USS Hornet saw many memorable moments during her service. There were numerous battles against the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II and even surviving a typhoon which tore the front of ...

National Moon Day is celebrated annually on July 20 to commemorate the Apollo 11 lunar landing in 1969, when astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first men to walk on the lunar surface ...

The front page of the July 21, 1969 Dayton Daily News after astronauts landed on the moon the day before. Neil Armstrong slowly takes man’s first step on the moon, July 20, 1969. Daytonians held their ...

Today, we can time travel back to 1969 as the exact same lunar phase appears in the July 20 sky. The lunar phase on July 20, 2026, is exactly the same as on July 20, 1969. Credit: NASA Scientific ...

"That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind." ABOVE VIDEO: This two-minute video montage shows highlights of the Apollo 11 moonwalk on July 20, 1969. (NASA Johnson video) July 1969.

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It took 43 days and a custom cage to bring the 4.5-tonne test command module from Washington to Castle Hill in Sydney's north-west.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The broken circuit breaker switch that nearly ended Apollo 11 (below) and the pen that saved the crew and the mission. Several ...

“That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.” Those historic words were spoken by Apollo 11 astronaut Neil Armstrong when he became the first human to set foot on the moon, on July 20, ...