DALLAS — In the summer of 1969, Rick Armstrong was 12 and whacking the baseball in the Houston-area Little League. He was selected to play in the all-star game — but he had to skip it, because he was ...

CINCINNATI (AP) — Neil Armstrong was a soft-spoken engineer who became a global hero when as a steely-nerved pilot he made "one giant leap for mankind" with a small step onto the moon. The modest man, ...

Built from spare parts and experimental ideas, Bell’s X-14 became the unlikely jet that helped astronauts practice the ...

WASHINGTON - When man first harnessed fire, no one recorded it. When the Wright Brothers showed man could fly, only a handful of people witnessed it. But when Neil Armstrong took that first small step ...

On July 20, 1969, awestruck viewers around the world watched on television as Ohioan Neil Armstrong become the first person to walk on the moon. Armstrong was born in Wapakoneta, Ohio, and spent his ...

In this photo provided by NASA, astronaut Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin poses for a photograph beside the U.S. flag deployed on the moon during the Apollo 11 mission on July 20, 1969. (Neil Armstrong/NASA via ...

During the frantic race to reach the Moon, NASA pushed its astronauts through dangerous training that most Americans never ...

You may never get the chance to step on the moon like Neil Armstrong. But you could live in his house. An El Lago, Texas house once owned by the astronaut and first man on the moon has been listed for ...

CINCINNATI - Neil Armstrong was a soft-spoken engineer who became a global hero when as a steel-nerved pilot he made "one giant leap for mankind" with a small step onto the moon. The modest man, who ...

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 ...