It's nearly 50 years since the US became the first country to land men on the Moon. The Apollo 11 mission was a huge moment in US and world history, but what exactly happened and why does it matter?

Platoff explains that Apollo 11's flag-raising on the moon was strictly a symbolic activity. Given that the United States was a signatory to the United Nations Treaty on Outer Space, the nation ...

The coins commemorate the Apollo 1 through 12 missions. Apollo 1, also known as AS-201, was a February 1966 unmanned, suborbital launch vehicle development test. Apollo 11 in July 1969 ... which ...

The successful Apollo 11 mission delivered two American astronauts ... Another 10 American men walked on the moon, leaving flags and footprints embedded in the lunar dust, but the Apollo ...

NASA began cancelling future Apollo space flights a mere six months after Apollo 11 achieved the first successful ... the last people to set foot on the moon's surface for the foreseeable future.

See the Past, Present and Future of American Spaceflight in 4 Minutes Apollo 11 Had 3 Men Aboard, But Only 2 Walked on the Moon. Here’s What it Was Like to Be the Third Meet Poppy Northcutt ...

landing and return of this historic mission—one of humanity’s greatest achievements and the first to put men on the moon. With a newly-discovered trove of never-before-seen 70mm footage and audio ...

Apollo 11: Moonwalk Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin became the first men to set foot on the moon on July 20, 1969. People around the world heard Armstrong's historic ...

Apollo 11 landed on the moon on July 20, 1969, making Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin the first men to walk on its surface. Astronaut Michael Collins, the third man on the Apollo 11 mission ...

July 15, 1969 (UPI)--- "Go" reports streamed in from launch crews, weathermen and global support forces today for the launch of the three Apollo 11 astronauts tomorrow on history's first moon ...

Astronauts placed six different American flags on the moon during the Apollo program. What became of those flags in the years ...