Neil Armstrong, the first human being to walk on the moon as commander of the Apollo 11 space flight on July 20, 1969, has died. He spoke the famous words, 'That's one small step for man, one ...

The R/V Neil Armstrong, which can support a crew of 44 for 40 days at sea, is expected to be in service for the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution for the next 50 years.

Following graduation, Armstrong became an experimental research test pilot, flying more than 200 different models, including seven flights aboard the North American X-15 hypersonic rocket-powered ...

Update 4/23/25: Neil Armstrong's former Omega, which he received to commemorate the moon landing, is now the most expensive Speedmaster in history. After dozens of online bids that culminated in a ...

In the early months of 1962, Neil Armstrong was wrestling with a decision: stick with flying experimental aircraft like the rocket-powered X-15, which flirted with the edge of the atmosphere, or ...

Neil Armstrong is best known for saying 12 words on July 20, 1969: "That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind." But there's more to his record.

We meet Armstrong strapped into the X-15 rocket plane, dropped from a large B-52 mother ship before he ignites his own craft’s engine and hurtles up to the edge of space.

The new movie “First Man” puts the Apollo 11 moon landing on the big screen. But what was Neil Armstrong, the man who took that giant leap, really like? We’ll ask NASA historian and ...

Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin's landing on the surface of the moon had everyone in mission control on the edge of their seats ...

NASA test pilot Neil Armstrong with the X-15 ship #1 after a research flight.

Neil Armstrong, a Navy aviator and the first person to walk on the moon, will be buried at sea. The sea burial mirrors his walk on the moon's Sea of Tranquility.

Here’s how it works. Apollo 11 moonwalker Neil Armstrong delivers remarks at his alma mater, Purdue University, in West Lafayette, Indiana in 2007.