Sad news for NASA and its Houston family, as word has come down that the first man on our moon has died today. Armstrong was 82. Breaking News and NBC News reported the news over Twitter around 2 p.m.

At the start of a talk at the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference in Houston in March, Harrison Schmitt, one of the two astronauts who walked on the moon during Apollo 17, the last lunar mission, ...

Neil Armstrong was a quiet self-described nerdy engineer who became a global hero when as a steely-nerved pilot he made "one giant leap for mankind" with a small step on to the moon. The modest man ...

"There are places to go beyond belief," he said. Aug. 26, 2012 — -- Neil Armstrong, the Apollo 11 astronaut who died Saturday at 82, said he did not want to live his life as an icon, remembered ...

Taken by Buzz Aldrin, the second person to walk on the moon, the Armstrong photo shows the famed astronaut standing beside the Lunar Module Eagle, which is what took the crew into space on the Apollo ...

A new record has been set for the most paid at auction for an astronaut's timepiece. The 18-karat gold Omega Speedmaster that was presented to Neil Armstrong four months after he became the first ...

Space movies try their best to capture something most of us will never feel. The hum of a capsule. The quiet that settles in when Earth shrinks to a blue marble. Filmmakers spend years chasing that ...

The items aren't your usual souvenirs. — -- In the fall of 2012, after Neil Armstrong died that summer, his widow, Carol Armstrong, found a bag full of personal mementos from 1969's Apollo 11 ...

GREEN BAY, Wis. (WLUK) -- A donation that's connected to the first man on the moon is making a difference for college-bound students in Northeast Wisconsin. On Thursday, Stefan Osdene, a vintage and ...

Armstrong commanded the Apollo 11 spacecraft that landed on the moon July 20, 1969, capping the most daring of the 20th century’s scientific expeditions. His first words after becoming the first ...