Neil Armstrong was a NASA astronaut, aeronautical engineer and the first person to walk on the moon, on July 20, 1969.

Had the Apollo program stopped after July 21, 1969, another astronaut says, its lunar samples would have been enough to reshape knowledge of the solar system.

Neil Armstrong NASA/JOHNSON SPACE CENTER As the world celebrates the 45th anniversary of the first moon landing made by American spacecraft Apollo 11, on July 20, 1969, the man who took those ...

Children in Annandale, Va., watch Neil Armstrong become the first man to walk on the moon in 1969. Photo by O. Louis Mazzatenta/National Geographic. Neil Armstrong, the first man to set foot on ...

When Neil Armstrong first set foot on the moon in 1969, everyone knows his famous line, but there's been some debate about what he actually said. Most people hear it as, "That's one small step for ...

NASA Astronaut Neil Armstrong was the first man to set foot on the moon and became a national hero. Armstrong recently died at the age of 82, many years after he changed history. So how did a guy ...

The first man on the moon declared, "That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.” Here's who he was, plus 11 more who walked the moon.

Neil Armstrong is a boyhood hero of mine. He is one of my heroes not because he was the first man to walk on the moon, although that has something to do with it. He is my hero because he came from my ...

CBS News relives the momentous 1969 moon walk as told by two legends: Apollo 11 commander Neil Armstrong and "CBS Evening News" anchor Walter Cronkite – the man who made history and the man who ...

When Apollo 11 landed on the moon on July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong was the first person to set foot on the lunar surface. Just about everyone knows that, right? But 50 years ago this month, in Marc… ...

Neil Alden Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon and an enduring icon of the the space age for taking "one giant leap for mankind," died today after complications from cardiovascular ...