NASA's space shuttle program officially began in 1972, ... The Apollo program succeeded, of course, when Neil Armstrong stepped onto the lunar surface on July 20, 1969.

Dean’s ride in Marion’s Old Settlers Day parade is a replica of the space shuttle, on loan from the Cosmosphere and NASA. “They built it one quarter to size,” said Dean.

Read NASA's statement and remembrance of Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon, who ... and in 1985 was vice chairman of the Presidential Commission on the Space Shuttle Challenger ...

Christopher Ferguson, the commander of NASA's last space shuttle mission (STS-135 in July 2011), was touched by Armstrong's modest demeanor despite his great feats in space.

A bill proposed by Congressmen Howard "Buck" McKeon (R-CA) and Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) aims to rename California's Dryden Flight Research Center after Neil Armstrong.

Michael Collins honors Neil Armstrong 01:30. Armstrong, Aldrin and Collins took off for the moon aboard a Saturn 5 rocket on July 16, 1969.While Collins remained behind in lunar orbit, Armstrong ...

The rocket carrying Neil Armstrong, ... Buffett was among the guests invited to NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida to witness the final launch of the space shuttle program on July 8, 2011.

Some legends of spaceflight gathered today (June 20) to pay tribute to one of the best among them: Neil Armstrong, first man on the moon.

NASA honored Apollo 11 commander Neil Armstrong by naming an operations building for the agency's Orion spacecraft after the first moonwalker. ... Apollo-Soyuz and space shuttle flights.

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 ...

Thomas Mallon reviews “First Man,” a biography of Neil Armstrong, who, as part of NASA’s Apollo 11 mission, became the first man to set foot on the moon. ... The space shuttle, ...

Moonwalker Neil Armstrong's spacesuit rubs shoulders with boxer Muhammad Ali's robe in Smithsonian Magazine's list of '101 Objects that Made America.' ... The retired space shuttle Discovery, ...