Tag: Apollo XI

• Friday, March 13th 2026 - 01:08 UTC

  NASA sets April 1 for Artemis II, first crewed Moon mission in over 50 years

  

  NASA said on Thursday that Artemis II had passed its flight readiness review and received the go-ahead to proceed toward a launch attempt on April 1, in what would be the first crewed mission around the Moon since the Apollo era. The agency said the Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft are set to roll out to pad 39B on March 19 once remaining closeout work is finished.

• Thursday, April 29th 2021 - 07:12 UTC

  Apollo 11 astronaut who orbitted the Moon dies at age 90

  

  Apollo 11 Mission “odd-man-out” Michael Collins died Wednesday of cancer at the age of 90, his family announced.

• Tuesday, August 28th 2012 - 05:35 UTC

  An Argentine football club has its colours in the moon taken by Armstrong

  

  Astronaut Neil Armstrong, who died on Saturday at the age of 82, planted in the moon a pennant from the Argentine football team Independiente, something he personally revealed during a visit to Buenos Aires, recalls the club from one of the working neighbourhoods of the Argentine capital.