Apollo 11 News

In his newest book, "Mission to Mars," Aldrin lays out a comprehensive plan that would lead to permanent human settlements on Mars in the next 25 years.

Next month at Johnson Space Center you will have a chance to meet Buzz Aldrin, two of the last living members of the Apollo 11 mission, which saw the first manned lunar landing in human history.

Editor's Note: National Geographic is bringing together astronaut Buzz Aldrin and mountaineer Conrad Anker for a Google+ Hangout on Monday, May 20 at 2 pm ET .

Apollo moonwalker Buzz Aldrin's current unhappiness with President Obama's scheme to snag an asteroid and visit with astronauts may have something to do with the shoddy way that he was treated by the president just before Obama's space policy speech on April 15, 2010, according to a May 9, 2013 account in Pajamas Media.

Astronaut Buzz Aldrin walking on the surface of the moon during the Apollo 11 extravehicular activity on July 20, 1969.

Scouring the information super airways can sometimes be a tough, if educational, task for the Aero-News staff... but it also allows us to check out some truly neat and exciting sites, so it's not that bad a gig.

A New Hampshire auction house will soon accept bids on space and aviation artifacts, including an electrocardiogram of Apollo 11 Commander Neil Armstrong's heartbeat taken when he first set foot on the moon.

Buzz Aldrin, the second human to set foot on the moon, talked about his new book "Mission to Mars: My Vision for Space Exploration" with Space.com Managing Editor Tariq Malik on Monday.

It's not a piece of history that makes your heart skip a beat ... but it is a very interesting piece of our collective culture.

Neil Armstrong was the first man to walk on the moon. It happened on 20 July 1969, and millions of people watched worldwide on live television.

Famed astronaut Buzz Aldrin, the second human ever to walk on the moon, has a vision for humanity's future in space.

They were identified as Capt. Mark Voss , 27, of Colorado Springs, Capt. Victoria Pinckney , 27, of Palmdale , and Tech Sgt.

A New Hampshire auction house will soon accept bids on space and aviation artifacts, including an electrocardiogram of Apollo 11 Commander Neil Armstrong's heartbeat taken when he first set foot on the moon.

RR Auctions announced its Space and Aviation Autograph and Artifact Auction, scheduled to take place from May 16th to May 23rd, 2013.

Eileen Collins, the first woman to pilot and command the space shuttle, entered the ranks of the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame wearing the same two-piece blue suit she wore to her astronaut selection interview nearly 25 years ago.

This July marks the 44th anniversary of Apollo 11, which flew to the moon carrying astronauts Michael Collins, Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong.

A single page of the LM Activation checklist referenced by Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin during Man's first moon landing on July 20, 1969 realized $55,268 to lead Heritage Auctions ' $1.57+ million Space Exploration Signature Auction in Dallas.

Some of the most historic sites of human history aren't even on our planet. On the moon are the six lunar landing sites left from NASA's 1969 to 1972 trips to the moon, and traveling somewhere out in the distance of the universe are interstellar objects like the Voyager probes.

When it comes to preserving history, a group of archaeologists and historians are hoping to boldly go where no archaeologist has gone before.

July 21, 1969, Buzz Aldrin became the second person to walk on the moon. He looked out at the landscape and said, "Beautiful, beautiful.