WAPAKONETA, Ohio -- As the nation celebrates the 50 year anniversary of the moon landing, one little town in northwest Ohio is celebrating its special connection to the Apollo 11 mission. Tucked away ...

DALLAS — In the summer of 1969, Rick Armstrong was 12 and whacking the baseball in the Houston-area Little League. He was selected to play in the all-star game — but he had to skip it, because he was ...

Neil Armstrong was a quiet self-described nerdy engineer who became a global hero when as a steely-nerved pilot he made "one giant leap for mankind" with a small step on to the moon. The modest man ...

On July 20th, 1969, Apollo 11 astronaut Neil Armstrong of Wapakoneta, Ohio, became the first person to walk on the moon. The day is now commemorated as National Moon Day or National Space Exploration ...

Neil Armstrong will always have a place on the moon alongside his fellow Apollo astronauts Michael Collins and Buzz Aldrin. Each has a crater in their name not far from the Apollo 11 landing site in ...

On July 20, 1969, awestruck viewers around the world watched on television as Ohioan Neil Armstrong become the first person to walk on the moon. Armstrong was born in Wapakoneta, Ohio, and spent his ...

Taken by Buzz Aldrin, the second person to walk on the moon, the Armstrong photo shows the famed astronaut standing beside the Lunar Module Eagle, which is what took the crew into space on the Apollo ...

"There are places to go beyond belief," he said. Aug. 26, 2012 — -- Neil Armstrong, the Apollo 11 astronaut who died Saturday at 82, said he did not want to live his life as an icon, remembered ...

Space movies try their best to capture something most of us will never feel. The hum of a capsule. The quiet that settles in when Earth shrinks to a blue marble. Filmmakers spend years chasing that ...

Neil Alden Armstrong, the first human to walk on the moon and a giant of space exploration, died Saturday. He was 82. According to his family, Armstrong died of complications following bypass surgery.