Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Bettmann/ Getty ; DON EMMERT/AFP via Getty Apollo 11 commander Neil Armstrong poses with his wife Jean, and their sons Eric and ...

Erica Wagner on a new biography of the space pioneer. By Erica Wagner Neil Armstrong: a Life of Flight Jay Barbree Thomas Dunne Books, 384pp, $27.99 In 1996, 30 years after Neil Armstrong first rode ...

On July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin spent a total of two hours and 31 minutes on the lunar surface. Their time and actions on the moon were largely scripted according to the mission, but ...

Editor’s Note: Gene Seymour is a film critic who has written about music, movies and culture for The New York Times, Newsday, Entertainment Weekly and The Washington Post. What was, in retrospect, ...

First Man is launching into cinemas on Friday, October 12. Ahead of the theatrical debut, there is a lot to unpack about the story. Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT And despite all the evidence, ...

Forty years on, the debate is over. He didn't say the "a". Neil Armstrong meant to, of course; the line he had prepared to mark the climax of humankind's greatest adventure of the 20th century should ...

Did you hear the one about the astronaut and the mountaineer reaching the North Pole? It sounds like a far-fetched Hollywood plotline, but relates to Neil Armstrong and Sir Edmund Hillary’s real-life ...

When Neil Armstrong died in a Cincinnati hospital two weeks after undergoing heart surgery in 2012, his family released a touching tribute addressing the astronaut’s millions of admirers around the ...

Few people leave such a lasting imprint on human history that they are raised to the status of immortality, but, much to his distaste, Neil Armstrong was one of that select band. His televised ...

Editor’s Note: Gene Seymour is a film critic who has written about music, movies and culture for The New York Times, Newsday, Entertainment Weekly and The Washington Post. What was, in retrospect, ...