Finally on July 16, 1969, Apollo 11 blasted off. On the fifth day in space, astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin began preparations to land the lunar module Eagle on the moon’s surface.

The curious minds at Aperture playfully ask whether Neil Armstrong’s arrival made humans the first aliens on the Moon. Kristi Noem taken to hospital by ambulance: What we know Food Network star ...

Yuri Gagarin is celebrated as the first human in space, but some believe he wasn’t the first — just the first to survive. Rumors of lost Soviet cosmonauts who died in secret missions have ...

Forty-five years ago today, at 10:56 p.m. EDT, Neil Armstrong took the most famous step of the 20th century. With more than half a billion people watching, the commander of the Apollo 11 climbed ...

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Covering over 40,000 hectares, and constructed from wood and metal with plastic sheeting, this is the largest structure visible from space ...

Mr. Armstrong became the first American civilian astronaut to fly in space, as commander of Gemini 8. He and his co-pilot, David R. Scott, were launched on March 16, 1966.

Crow-Armstrong said he doesn’t know if he “can withstand however long the timer is” for the Home Run Derby’s elimination bracket. “That would be a struggle,” he said.

Jesse Armstrong offers a sharp take on power in the show “Mountainhead,” where four tech billionaires ignore the looming dangers of AI as the world unravels around them. Keep KCRW Independent. KCRW is ...