Jack King, a NASA public affairs official who became the voice of the Apollo moon shots, died Thursday. He was 84. King counted down the historic launch of Apollo 11 on July 16, 1969. He also did the ...

"We did it. We actually put people on the surface of the moon." Those were the words from former Apollo astronaut Jim Lovell, who was just one of millions of people around the globe who watched in awe ...

Astronaut Edwin E. "Buzz" Aldrin, Jr., lunar module pilot of the first lunar landing mission, is beside the U.S. flag during an Apollo 11 moon walk. The Lunar Module (LM) is on the left, and the ...

Apollo 11 first landed astronauts on the Moon in 1969, but the journey to the lunar surface actually began 43 years before, in snowy Massachusetts. Exactly 100 years ago, on March 16, 1926, Robert H.

WASHINGTON — In celebration of the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11, the National Air and Space Museum launched a projection of the 363-foot Saturn V rocket off the Washington Monument. After projecting ...