Science news articles about 'neil armstrong'

  • Neil Armstrong donating his papers to Purdue

    WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. (AP) -- Former astronaut Neil Armstrong has agreed to donate personal papers dating from the start of his flight career to his alma mater, Purdue University....
  • Neil Armstrong: I want to be alone

    ... documentaries wondering what that must've been like. Being Neil Armstrong (Sun, 9pm, BBC4) is the latest. ... what makes him tick. He goes to Neil's home town and talks to a woman who used to be friends ...
  • Neil Armstrong: The right stuff

    What train of events led to Neil Armstrong – a civilian – being the first man to walk on the moon? When John F Kennedy threw down the gauntlet to Nasa in 1961, the ...
  • Texas May Nix Neil Armstrong from Science Textbooks

    Educators in Texas are debating whether to nix references to Neil Armstrong in the science strand of a 5th grade textbook.
  • Armstrong's 'poetic' slip on Moon

    Neil Armstrong did not say "one small step for a man" when he set foot on the Moon in 1969, a linguistic analysis has confirmed.
  • Robot Scout: Fly Me (Safely) to the Moon

    ... in disaster. At just 400 feet from the lunar surface, with only about a minute's worth of fuel remaining, astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin saw that their ship's ...
  • Biggest Full Moon of the Year

    No, you can not see Neil Armstrong's footprint. But go ahead and look: The full Moon of Dec. 12th is the biggest and brightest full Moon of the year.
  • How Nasa put a man on the moon

    ... and the lunar module drops to within nine miles of moon's surface. 16-24 July Apollo 11 crew members Neil Armstrong and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin land on the moon....
  • Extreme sports fan aims to be Iraq's first man in space

    ... – to be the first Iraqi in space."I want to represent my country, and to be one of the men like Neil Armstrong and Yuri Gagarin, who showed with all humility what it is to be a good human," said Iraq' ...
  • New Book Brings Readers Face-To-Face With First Moonwalker

    ... historian Andrew Chaikin, a new image of Apollo 11 astronaut Neil Armstrong taken early in the first-ever moonwalk brings readers face-to-face with the first human to set foot ...
  • NASA's mission: Can we live on the moon?

    ... search for water. Nearly four decades after astronaut Neil Armstrong planted his boot on the surface of the ...
  • Apollo ... the dream that fell to Earth

    ... dreams It was the most audacious act of exploration ever carried out by a human being. On 21 July, 1969, astronaut Neil Armstrong stepped onto the lunar surface to become the first ...
  • What does a moon man say?

    1 July 1969 What is Neil Armstrong, the first man on the moon, going to say as his boot sinks into the lunar dust shortly after 7 a.m. (BST) on July 21? This is currently ...
  • They put a man on the moon

    ... changed and that we could pinpoint this change to almost the second. We didn't have to wait for Neil Armstrong to get out of the lunar module and fumble a portentous remark about a small step for a ...
  • Those hoax myths debunked

    ... without an atmosphere. Why it's nonsense: The flag doesn't move in any of the videos except when touched by Neil Armstrong or Buzz Aldrin. But then the lack of atmosphere and ...

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