Neil Armstrong News

During NASA's Apollo program, 12 astronauts landed on the Moon, starting with Armstrong and Aldrin on July 20, 1969. The findings suggest there could be hundreds of pits and thousands of lava tubes on the Moon, know details.

The "MS50" aviation headset was first released by Plantronics in 1962, the same technology which was used in Neil Armstrong's headsets as well as the headsets used within mission control facilities around the globe.

Even Neil Armstrong couldn't remember exactly what he said in the famous line he spoke during humanity's first-ever moon landing, NASA's Apollo 11 mission, as he stepped onto the lunar surface.

In the televised call, the US president Robert Nixon told Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin that the whole world was proud of them, and that "because of what you have done, the heavens have become a part of man's world."

The US astronaut gave the vial of moon dust along with a handwritten note to the little girl

It features Ryan Gosling as Neil Armstrong.

Armstrong, a Wapakoneta native, became the first person to step onto the moon's surface in July 1969.

Its previous owner was an Illinois lawyer, who bought it in 2015 for USD 995.

By 1958, Langley's governing organisation, NASA, would become NASA, and Langley's accomplishments would soar from air into space.

Traces of moon dust and small rock are embedded in what is the only artifact from the Apollo 11 mission in private hands, says Sotheby's, who is organizing the sale on July 20, the 48th anniversary of the first moon landing in 1969.

The three astronauts - Thomas Stafford, John Young and Eugene Cernan, recorded the sounds, which they described as “outer space type” music.