National Moon Day is observed every July 20 to honor the Apollo 11 mission and the first human moon landing in 1969. This ...

How a single word changed the meaning of one of history's most famous phrases.

On July 21, 1925, the so-called Monkey Trial, which pitted Clarence Darrow against William Jennings Bryan in Dayton, Tenn., in one of the great confrontations in legal history, ended with John Thomas ...

America’s most daring, extraordinary feat — landing astronauts on the moon — remains the pinnacle of achievement by anyone ...

Millions around the world watched on their television screens as the Moon landing in July 1969 happened. NASA had done it. That day as part of the Apollo 11 mission it was the first time in history ...

By 1:11 a.m. on July 21, both astronauts were back in the lunar module and the hatch was closed. The two men slept that night ...

That’s one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind”, These were Neil Armstrong’s words as he became the first human ...

The 12 NASA astronauts part of the Apollo program remain the only humans to reach the lunar surface.

On July 21, 1925, the so-called Monkey Trial, which pitted Clarence Darrow against William Jennings Bryan in Dayton, Tenn., ...

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